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Table of Contents
(Click on an underlined section below, to go to it)
Doctrine of How God Orchestrates
Time
Associated Doc and Webpage
Links
Separate Meter-maps for Psalm
90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9
Greek of Eph 1:3-14 and Metered Translation
Individual
Verses: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Individual verse Notes: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Verse 4's Note on 77 Syllables Meter Tagging
Styles
The Anaphora: eudokian epainon TempleTrio Interplay Overlap 33 sevens 45 sevens 78 sevens 94 sevens
The Assets: apolutrwsin aphesin sophia musterion proetheto prothesin proelpikotas
Pregnancy 1
Pregnancy1b Meter Meaning
Pregnancy 2 Pregnant
14 Palindromes
('Pregnancy'=
accounting precedence for the Rapture)
Paul's Chronology Use of Meter
Chronology
Chart Church
Father Hall of Shame Conclusions Appendix II:
Diocletian's Death
Appendix I: Anaphora
Chronology 1st eudokian 2nd eudokian 3rd eudokian
1st epainon 2nd epainon 3rd epainon
Time Balance Summary epainon Bal
Bible Time Distances Year 1077s BC/AD Balance Quirinius Herod Temp Trio Bal
Preface to
Ephesians 1:3-14,
Paul's Meter of Church Time
Go to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline
Pregnant
Verse Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
To comprehend
Ephesians, you must know Paul's meter from the Greek; but to know his meter, you first need to know
its underlying Doctrine of Time. Bible Hebrew meter, which Paul
uses here in Greek, conveys a doctrine about How God Orchestrates Time. It runs pan-Bible, so has been used for 1500
years. Undetected, by Christendom.
All
prophecy is an accounting, primarily. All the prophetical events are accounted,
to 'obey' this Doctrine's Rules. So,
the Time Rules are encoded metrically, since Israel had to memorize Scripture
orally. This made the Rules,
easy to remember. Hence this meter is
extensively used in the Old Testament, yet scholars don't know about it. They've debated whether OT Bible Hebrew even has
meter, for over 300 years. They can't
discern that meter, since they impose Western ideas of poetry meter, on
the Bible text.
Most of the
scholars involved in the debate over Hebrew meter, are preterists and
Replacement Theologians. So it's not to their advantage, to 'find' a
meter which disproves preterism, which disproves Replacement Theology, since
both 'doctrines' cut out the Jews from God's Promises; just like Harold Camping
did recently, his Mad-Magazine numbers loudly and laughably predicting the
world's end on May 21-now-October 21, 2011. The world, justifiably snickers. Bible is a casualty. Bible looks Bad. Not fair.
For God's Prophecy concerns the JEWs, and we Church weren't supposed to be here, Romans 11. We got 'grafted in', only because Israel rejected Christ and He contracted to BUILD CHURCH, starting in Matthew 16:18, specifically asking for it per Father's Discretion (hence Rapture is pre-Trib and cannot be predicted), in John 17:17-26.
Little wonder then, that 'scholars' debate what even constitutes a syllable, in Hebrew. Yet every Jew has always known: consonant to consonant, one syllable. The next consonant begins the next syllable, and sometimes also ends the prior syllable; certain consonant combinations unite into one syllable. So you only concern yourself with vowel elision, a stringing-together of sound which occurs in every language; and in Hebrew, also the waw might be elided (nowadays called vav). No need to play games with the text, no artificial-sounding recitation as in today's Judaism (harsh Sephardic tones), just read the text. Which in writing, is easy to parse. No confusion.
Once Christendom appreciates God's rhetorical device of metering Time to match verse content, every denomination will want to retool its ideas of hermeneutics, textual criticism, and above all, eschatology. So obviously, much up-front explanation is required; for much debate will justifiably ensue.
No one likes hearing
he's been remiss in his Bible understanding, i.e., the fact that everyone
accounts years as lunar, but BIBLE NEVER DOES.
So Christendom as well as Judaism, constantly get Bible's dates wrong;
Bible doesn't seem to balance, and oh you must just take it on faith, as
if we're doing God a favor. Bible
only uses solar years, but we use lunar, then claim Bible wrong, obtuse, or
(yikes!) "inscrutable"! Camping played games on Bible math. He's not alone. Scholars routinely ignore the EXTRA SEVEN
YEARS in Daniel 9, claiming they are lunar years. NO!
On the other hand, we
all like hearing our faith in Bible, vindicated. That's another certain conclusion, in what
follows. God is Trustworthy. He did preserve His Word. You can rely on it, and once you see how
God proves He orchestrated HISTORY YOU CAN TEST, you'll feel MUCH better
about Bible's Divinity.
By the way, you
needn't credit 'brainout' for this material;
nor did I use anything copyrighted, to derive it. I think the point of 'my' getting it, was to
prove a) even a brainout can know this, and b) to save scholars and
pastors, vetting time. For I know
this material, only because I asked God for Bible proof of a doctrine my
pastor long taught: that God uses Believers To Buy Time. [Christendom
generally calls this 'salt of the earth'.] He called it 'Blessing by Association',
but he didn't know there were explicit AMOUNTS of Time. I learned that, when sleuthing to see what he
meant by 'Buying Time.'
So if YOU also come to see its Biblical validity, YOU
own it. For it's BIBLE's data, not
'brainout's'. Different 'B'. I know this is
controversial material, and yet it's mostly correct. So each day I throw stones at it; I hope you
will, too. Obviously to the extent
correct, it's of GOD, not 'brainout'.
And that's the ONLY 'B', which matters.
So I hope you'll tell me, where you find my errors.
Preface, How God Constructs Time Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
Go to: End
Notes
Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes
a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
So Bible does indeed use meter, to Account for Time. Because, Israel was on a SCHEDULE God set up at Adam's Fall. For the rhetorical-style uses of meter, click here for the Meter Notes' section, read bullets prior to Note A.
This document will show how Paul employs meter;
especially, how he 'tags' specific passages metrically in Psalm 90,
Isaiah 53, and Daniel 9. Thus you gain precise certitude on how
to read and interpret, Ephesians. And
you know something else: everyone used to be familiar with these Rules, just as
we know our abcs.
So what is this Doctrine of How God Orchestrates Time? Briefly, it goes like this:
[Extensive
documentation of what follows is in the Video
and Webpage
links pages of this
Preface.]
o Time is a LOAN.
So it must be 'paid' by someone voting for God. Else, TIME ENDS.
o This LOAN is in specific units, each with its own
voting 'audience' and purpose.
o
First Unit, a 490, during which at least ONE BELIEVER must spiritually
SUPERMATURE. Else, Time Ends. Per
Bible, Adam was the first to supermature, as indicated by the 'present' of his
son Seth (Appointed-to-Carry-the-Name). Genesis 5 is a roster of those who Voted
and Supermatured. That's its primary
purpose, to Track Time Grants Being Met. The sons' births are TIMED; and when you crunch the math, you learn that,
for example, there were 490 years between Seth's birth and Enoch's, showing
that Jared also supermatured at the last minute. (Nerd Note:
Age rounding means that there might be a 1-2 year variance in the math.) Same 490, between the births of Shem and
Isaac.
o Second Unit is a 70, following the 490 if it successfully completed (someone supermatured during that Unit). During this 70, BELIEVERS EN MASSE must Vote To Learn God. The 'mass', can be as small as one (i.e., Noah, who voted during his own 70). Else, Time Ends for those who didn't vote. (Hence the Flood.)
o
Third Unit, is another 490, following
the 70, if the latter successfully completed. Again, at least One Believer must
spiritually supermature. Else, Time
Ends.
o Unit Four, the Sum: 1050 (490+70+490), constitutes God's Basic 'house' of Time. It 'funds' the ability of unbelievers to Vote To Be Saved. Gospel is always the same in any time period: you BELIEVE in the Future Savior Who Will Pay For Your Sins (aka Messiah, in Hebrew): and thus are saved from Hell and to Heaven.. forever.
o
So notice Unit
Four, the 1050 is also constructed of 50's: there are 21 of them. So, 1000+50 constitutes twenty 50's, plus
one. (Hence
the term 'millennium' in a generic sense.
Really, 1000+50, not 1000. But in
shorthand, 1000.)
o So Unit Five, is a special unbeliever-voting window during the last 50 years of the 1050. Notice how it piggybacks onto the last 50 years of the last 490, thus signifying that unbeliever votes depend on believers, voting. (Nerd Note: this is precedence for the sabbatical years, for Pentecost and Jubilee, covered here passim.)
o
So the 1000 is
a 'civilization' unit, with a '50' at the end; so the
'house' of 1050 contains both believers and unbelievers, each with a
TIME promise and a TIME warning, if they don't vote for God.
o
TIME ENDS for those who don't vote for God.
That's the basic point, so is precedence for the sudden-death
nature of the Rapture; which Paul will stress, in this passage.
o
For the
Millennium was predicted to arrive in the year 4200 from Adam's Fall, ever since the Exodus (and maybe prior, I can't yet prove what prior knowledge, of a 2nd 2100). The first two
units ran 2100 years, for the Gentiles.
The second 2100 was for the Jews. Jews today even know this, but they account
2000 each, not 2100. And they use a
bad calendar, patterned after the Seder Olam Rabbah. Google on that term.
o
Messiah was
SCHEDULED to die 57 years before the end of the second 2100; hence when
the Jews rejected Him, there was no more time left. There was no more time
left, because Abraham matured EARLY, so that 57 was 'owed' the Gentiles. (Again, this
was encoded into the Mosaic Law as Passover+Pentecost, Jubilee+Trib, mirrors.)
Preface, How God Constructs Time, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
Technically, Abraham supermatured in the very year that Noah's
490-year Time Grant, ran out. That was
year 2046 from Adam. Rounded, the number
is 54 (2100-2046). [Really, it's 53.5 years. An extra 3.5-year piece is tacked on,
probably precedented from Noah, who entered the Ark 57 days after his
birthday. I'm not yet sure why that is
precedent.]
o
So there is no
more time left to Israel, if she doesn't accept Messiah when He comes On Time. [This might
explain the origin of preterism. If one
only looks at the fact Israel ran out of time, one can falsely conclude that
the remainder 'passed on' to Church. But
Bible's promises to Abraham, Moses, David are UNCONDITIONAL, so are still
future. The Last David, inherited them
all, Isaiah 53:12. So there is a future for Israel, which Church TIES to, and
fronts; ergo, the unpredictable pre-Trib
Rapture.]
o
All this was
recorded in the meter of Psalm 90; Isaiah 53 picked up the meter
timeline where Moses left off;
Isaiah updated the Advent timeline, since David had been born and died; now everyone knew when Messiah had to be born:
o
1000 years
after David's consolidated Kingship,
which was (per Bible), 1004 bc.
o
So then Messiah
was SCHEDULED to have the same lifetime as David's total rulership, 40
years.
o
So then He
would have died in 37AD, had the Jews accepted Him. That was, year 4143 from Adam's Fall. Rule of 57 would be met.
o
So when the
First Temple went down, that
Schedule was now in breach. Daniel
knew the meter, and thus metered his own prayer in Daniel 9,
timing the date he prayed it, to the beginning of the last missed sabbatical
year, again shown in his meter.
o
Daniel's
metered prayer asked for the specific units of Time God grants (God replying also
in meter, as well as explicit text), in
Daniel 9:24-26. [The '50' is left out, since it's not Jewish time. So it's in ellipsis, between Daniel 9:26 and
9:27.]
o
So there were TWO
sevens, 14 -- a subunit depicting Time In Breach, Loss of Time due to Temple Down,
which Moses had warned of, metrically;
which Isaiah metrically doubled (two
positives offsetting the negative). As we'll see in the Ephesians passage, Paul
will ape both Moses' and Isaiah's usage, in a type of antiphony showing the Church
will be used as the Time Bridge to fulfill the 14.
o
One seven, was
embedded in the 62nd week; and the other was the Tribulation, in Daniel
9:27.
Both were to play, respectively in and due to Messiah's
'time' (front-and-back like
7-day-pre-Flood warning to Noah, Messiah's death kicking off the final 57); since Israel went overbudget, so to speak, in Temple
Reconstruction delay (21 years instead of
seven, between 537BC and 516BC).
o
So when Christ
came and Israel rejected Him, He ended up dying seven years earlier, still
in the 62nd week of Daniel 9:26. So that 'week', didn't
complete. [We
don't notice that, because we ASSume a lunar accounting. So the preterist thinks that Daniel 9:27 is
the only 7. So too, the
Dispensationalist. Not so!] This hanging extra
7, was yet future at the time Paul wrote, and would be
'spent' on taking down the Temple under Titus, 64-70AD. Everyone expected that, since Daniel 9:26 is
on Temple Down.
o Accordingly, the Christ knew
that; so before He died, He Inaugurated
Church To Continue
Time for no set AMOUNT of Time, Matt16:18. John 17:17-23 shows It's Up To Father,
How Many FUTURE SOULS Christ Should 'Fund', On The Cross.
o
As a result, Time is in a 'bubble' of Daniel 9:26, the '62nd week', a 434, leaving 56 to finish the 490.
o So, Paul's meter sums 434, to display We Church Are The Time Bridge of History. [Personal note: I wish my pastor were alive to see this. All during his ministry he taught that Church was the Time Bridge, especially when exegeting Ephesians for us in daily Bible class, for seven whopping years! He didn't know this meter, or I'm sure he'd have taught it. He taught it for free. So I'm publishing this material for free. Anonymously, so anyone can claim it as their own.]
Preface, Video Playlists Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
As a result, I've made many videos on God's Time Rules and on the
passages Paul uses, to show their meter.
These videos are designed to acquaint the viewer with the Rules you'll
see Paul use in the next section, and to demonstrate how their meter is
designed to show how God met those Rules -- or, conversely, violated by
man. The video series thus far are
unfinished, and are categorized into five playlists:
Psalm 90: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FF2856603C945631 Shows
how Psalm 90 is structured as the Meter of Time, Adam through Millennium.
Isaiah 53 Meter
Hypothesis: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8523934356BE4BDC Journal-type videos on how I learned that no words
were missing in Isaiah 53's Hebrew, and what meter structure I found. This was how I learned the meter you're about
to see in this document.
10 GGS (Greek Geek Stuff): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PL5D3F5A2E85CE65CC
Introduction to Eph1 use of Hebrew meter
but Greek words; this document's
contents will eventually be shown in videos, here. This playlist dovetails with Psalm 90
playlist Episode 18 and following. It includes
other NT metered passages, like the Magnificat: click here,
for only
the Magnificat.
10 YMH (Yapping Most High): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLB73D9DA02D729857 Jewish dispensationalism compared with God's 1050-year
'house' of Time, primer videos. Since at
least Rambam (Maimonides), Jewish Dispensationalism claims God Orchestrates
Time to run in 2000-year units. That's
close to the Biblical description. (Really
2100 years for the goyim; 2100 years for the Jews; and then Messiah was
supposed to Come, which He did.) Since their calendar is off, Jews expect
Messiah to arrive in their Year 6000, but their calendar is 346 years short
of history, and many Jews know that. (Year
2011 they call Year 5771, but it's really the 6117th year from Adam's
Fall. Sometime during the Hasmonean
period, or at least by Josephus' day, someone took the Seder Olam Rabbah
and made it into a historical calendar, even though everyone knew the makers of
the SOB had cut OUT years, like those under the Persian kings. For the SOB was designed to keep track of
PROMISE TIME, which they didn't reckon as consecutive time. You can research this cutting-out, on the
internet.)
Genesis Exegesis: Genesis
5 begats introduce God's Orchestration-of-Time doctrine. Start in Episode 8c1, where I cover how to
use the GeneYrs.xls timeline (see next
page): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=AB5BE9F40D2918FB
.
How God
Constructs Time: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32D5DBC20BF4163F
General
orientational videos on the doctrine, samples from the above playlists. Of these, the "Pass the Salt" video
pair are the most important. The
'Companion' Pass the Salt has additional videos in its description, tracing the
voting periods from Adam, forward.
Before the videos, I wrote
webpages and documents on God's Rules for Time.
I learned the rules first, back in May 2004, from Daniel 9's text; only
by accident (yeah, right), when sleuthing whether Isaiah 53 had missing words,
did I find the meter pattern (2008). So
beginning with Isaiah 53 (2008), then Psalm 90 (2009), then Daniel 9 (2010) and
here Ephesians 1 (Christmas 2010), the current and future videos focus on these
Bible passages and meter uses, so you can see how the Bible conveys this
doctrine. Once you see the meter
pattern, you should find it in any prophetic OT passage you choose. Other NT passages also use the same meter,
like Philippians 3:14 (a Rapture passage),
Hebrews 11:1 (a
whole chapter on
Accounting-for-the-Rapture). So look for the meter pattern in the NT, as
well.
Again, folks in
Paul's day and prior, learned these Time Rules as we learn our ABC's. This was basic theology, to them. Daniel, for example, was a teenager when
taken hostage to Babylon. Daniel 9 is in
meter, accounting the TIME of Israel's kings, playing off specific sections of
Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53 via their syllable counts. God's reply to Daniel is also metered; the
explicit numbers in Daniel 9:24-26, mirror Daniel's meter. Thus you know why Daniel didn't ask
questions, though every other converse with Gabriel, ended with Daniel
being surprised.
So the documents that
follow, largely predate the videos. I
apologize for the bits-and-pieces nature of the analysis, but I publish it as I
learn it. It's not fair to delay or keep
this information quiet.
Preface, Webpages and Documents Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
Go
to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeterCharacs.doc is the latest update on the Meter Rules. All further refinements of the Meter Rules
will be codified there. So far,
it's a short (16-page), updated
diagnostic of 30 identifiable characteristics in Bible Hebrew and Greek meter,
plus troubleshooting tips. You can use
it to test any passage in Bible for meter.
Included in the doc, are hints on how to find such passages; plus (passim),
a tentative shortlist of them.
o
Main webpage on How
God Orchestrates Time: http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm. Has all
videos, too.
o
Next, brainoutFAQ:
http://www.brainout.net/brainoutFAQ.htm#6. Read it
through 6b. Shorter display of the
Biblicity of Bible dates used in Mirroring.htm and GeneYrs.xls.
o
Timeline From
Adam forward: http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls. Shows how
God's Rules for Time affect history both in Bible and post-Bible. All worksheet dates are taken from Bible; no
astrology, astronomy, or extra-Biblical 'sources'. Just count the
dates as Bible gives them, and be sure to count in SOLAR YEARS. Lunar accounting is a Jewish convention; but Bible's calendar is always based on
BIRTHDAYS, from Adam forward; so is always solar; God bid Israel use a solar year, Exodus
12. So the worksheet Col G (in yellow)
dates tally to Bible. (Our BC/AD dates are sometimes 3 years off, which
timeline also reflects. You can't fix
it, by moving the timeline up three years.
There are two self-cancelling errors in our calendars; that's why
SOME of our BC/AD dates are right; some chronologers only make one or the
other, error. Bible's timeline is
self-auditing, so I'll eventually find where those errors are located.)
o Backup Timeline Explanation for GeneYrs.xls and Mirroring.htm: http://www.brainout.net/TenWaysThisTimelineDiffers.doc. That Word document briefly explains the scholar errors, i.e., human king's decree in Daniel 9:25; lunar years; ignoring 1Kings 6:1 on David's death age (77), and instead preferring Josephus, etc. It also goes into the accounting relationship between 70 and 50 (on page 15 of TenWays), vital to how Paul crafts and 'nests' his own meter.
o Another backup, showing we can know from BIBLE, exactly when the Lord was born and died, and that between His Arrest and Crucifixion, there were FOUR DAYS, not one: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm . Bible documentation there is extensive, and will take you months to vet; for God designed Israel's calendar around the Christ, just as Hebrews 1:2 says, in Greek (mistranslated). There's really no excuse for our centuries of confusion.
o Exodus backup, how the BIBLE's date (1440 bc) obviously dovetails with history we know: http://www.brainout.net/Exodate.htm .
o Another backup, showing the Noahic Flood timeline; Bible writers use the LXX, not the BHS dates. Paul here relies on you knowing the LXX chronology, and tags his meter to it. So here's that chronology: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc . The pdf copy: http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.pdf
o
Harold Camping misused Bible to craft his
Doomsday dates; so, he used the wrong Flood dates, even. If you're interested,
I refuted his calculations here: http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes1.doc
and
http://www.brainout.net/CampingTimelineGaffes2.doc
. I couldn't have done it so well
if I didn't know the meter. What
attracted people to Camping was his alleged precision with Bible
timelines. Well, the REAL Bible's
precision makes his fake timeline look like the LXX begats' bungling, in Genesis 5!
o God's Play of History Hebrew Meter style and integration among Psalm 90, Isaiah 53, Daniel 9:4-26 and Eph 1:3-14: http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc ; next, http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.pdf is the pdf conversion.
o
Psalm 90
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.pdf (with LXX and NASB translation as well as Bibleworks' 5 BHS text)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90ParsedTrilingual.rtf
o http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Parsed.pdf (meter map of Psalm 90 with explanation and notes, parsing and metered translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc (original doc used to create the Ps90Parsed.pdf)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.pdf (map showing the palindromic nature of Moses' meter)
o http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90Palindromes.tif (original scan from which pdf was made)
o http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf (map of how Judges tracks to Psalm 90's meter)
Preface, Webpages and Documents, continued Go to: ChronoChart Doc of Time PaulChrono Preface Pregnancy 1 2 14 Title Page
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to: End Notes Meter Notes Outline Pregnant Verse
Notes a b c d e f g h k l m n a b c d e f g h i j Verses
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
o
Isaiah 53
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.pdf (meter parsing map)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Map.jpg (meter map showing patterns and balancing)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53MeterTransInEnglishWide.doc (metered-to-Hebrew, English translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Isa53.RTF (original sleuthing on whether Isaiah 53 had missing words; has outdated parsing +LXX)
o
Daniel 9
o http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.pdf (meter map of Daniel 9 with notes, no translation provided)
o http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF (same, used to create the pdf)
o http://www.brainout.net/Dan924HebParsed.pdf (shocking meter in Daniel 9:24-27, no translation; God stresses the 14!)
o See also Footnote E of http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc . It extensively documents Daniel's use of meter to track Israel's history and craft the 490 he REQUESTS from God, syllable by syllable, with cross-references to the specific Kings and Chronicles passages, Daniel has in mind when he talks. Will change how you read, Daniel 9. Very shocking and witty. A copy of Footnote E now resides also in the DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerParsed documents.
o Ephesians
1
o http://www.brainout.net/Eph1DecreeSyllablesREPARSED.pdf (comprehensive proof of Paul's meter mapping to Ps90, Isa53, Daniel 9, plus metered translation)
o http://www.brainout.net/Ephesians1REPARSED.doc (this document, used to create the REPARSED.pdf)
Mary's Magnificat
o In 2012, while making the Synoptic videos to prove Mark's Gospel is third, not first: I was nonplussed to find out the Magnificat was metered. Her meter and time tracks, are easily as sophisticated, as Daniel's. Click here for videos on her meter. Word doc there used: http://www.brainout.net/MagnificatMeterDraft2.doc . As usual, the NT text is pasted from BibleWorks NA27 aka UBS4, unaltered.
o Last video in that playlist shows Zecharias' Luke 1 meter; wow, HE plays on Mary's. Bear in mind he spoke 3 months after she did; Luke's just quoting. So this tells you how commonly they used meter; like we might compose a lyric or rhyme, on the fly! Mary's just talking off the top of her head on ARRIVAL, for crying out loud; Zecharias, is talking for the first time in nine months! Paul Uses Their Meters To Craft the Ephesians 1 Ninety-One's: four quarters in the Year, Boat of Church.
Other material (all outdated)
o Summary of Bible Hebrew Accounting Meter Usage: http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewAccountingMeter.doc ,
o
which is a Word doc copy of blog entry: http://godsrhetoricalstyles.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-entry-is-long-time-in-coming.html
o
http://www.brainout.net/BibleHebrewMeter.htm
. Initial doc on the Meter Rules. Has been updated in the Psalm 90 playlist
video description, Episode 23b, and especially in the blog entry listed at the
beginning of this subsection.
o
http://www.brainout.net/Isa53trans.htm
. Analysis
of Isaiah 53's import with combined BHS+LXX texts . Material is somewhat outdated. My original purpose was to see if any Hebrew
words were missing, i.e., as shown in Moeller's copy of the Isaiah scroll. What a surprise, to find the text
perfectly metered, instead!
Ephesians
1:3-14 (with
Meter-Matching Translation)
Color
Legend:
Red= elision or single-syllable sound; blue (cumulative) and orange (per sevened
paragraph) = syllable count;
teal
= verse #. Each shaded area is a distinct
grammatical unit, divides by 7. Same criteria
as in Isaiah 53, Psalm 90's Hebrew.
End Notes are super- or subscripted in pink. Read
bracketed text (but not parentheses) as part of the meter in translation.
Wavy line is eudokian
anaphoric bookend. Dashed line is epainon anaphoric bookend. Thick line
is Temple anaphoric
bookend.
Navigation: click on
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3 Euvloghto.j o` qeo.j kai. path.r10 Worthy of Glory
[is] God the Father a
tou/
kuri,ou h`mw/n VIhsou/ Cristou/ 20
of The
Lord-and-Our-Master, Jesus Christ;
o`
euvlogh,saj h`ma/j 27
the One Who Is Blessing Us b
evn
pa,sh| euvlogi,a|
pneumatikh/| 37 with every spiritual
blessing [class]
evn
toi/j evpourani,oij evn Cristw/| 47 with those living in heaven, via Christ,
4 kaqw.j evxele,xato h`ma/j/| 56
A even as He had elected us; 56
evn auvtw/| pro. katabolh/j ko,smou 66 In Him before the founding
of the world,
ei=nai h`ma/j a`gi,ouj73
kai. avmw,mouj 77 b,d we are [pronounced] to be holy, blemish-free; 21
katenw,pion auvtou/ 84C
Before Him, by His Standard;
7
evn avga,ph| c 5 proori,saj h`ma/j 94 By means of Love, He had foreordained us, b
eivj ui`oqesi,an dia. VIhsou/ Cristou/ 105 d, i into [His] heirship,
sonship through Jesus Christ; 21
eivj auvto,n kata. th.n euvdoki,an 114 Into Him, as per His Own
Delight h
tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 121 h in His Own
Will-and-Purpose,
6 eivj e;painon do,xhj th/j ca,ritoj auvtou/ 133 e resulting in praise to the
Glory of His Grace; 28
h-j evcari,twsen h`ma/j 141 With which [grace], He has
graced us out:
21+ 7 + 21+ 28 +14 = 91
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7 evn w-| e;comen th.n avpolu,trwsin 157 In Whom we keep on having redemption, d
dia. tou/ ai[matoj auvtou/ 165 on account of and through
His Blood:
th.n a;fesin tw/n paraptwma,twn 175 e,l debt cancellation, for our
transgressions; 28
kata. to. plou/toj th/j ca,ritoj auvtou/ 186 per the Standard of the Riches of His
Grace,
8 h-j evperi,sseusen eivj h`ma/j 195 with which [grace] He
superabounds us,
evn pa,sh| sofi,a| kai. fronh,sei 205 by means of all wisdom and reasoned thought;
9 gnwri,saj h`mi/n to. musth,rion 215 making known to us
past-hidden content b, g
tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 222 about His
Will-and-Purpose,
kata. th.n euvdoki,an auvtou/ 231 h according to His Own
Delight 56
h]n proe,qeto evn auvtw/| 238 f,j which [delight]
He (Father) set forth via Him (Christ); 7
28 + 56 + 7 =
91
10 eivj oivkonomi,an tou/ plhrw,matoj tw/n kairw/n 252 g
To Result in the 'Filling-Up of Times'
Dispensation; e
14
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avnakefalaiw,sasqai260 To Sum, gather under one
Head,
ta. pa,nta evn tw/| Cristw/| 267 all [Trial] matters, in
Christ:
ta. evpi. toi/j ouvranoi/j kai. 275 [all matters] in the
heavens, and
ta. evpi. th/j gh/j evn auvtw/| 283 [all matters] on earth,
via Him;
11 evn w-| kai. evklhrw,qhmen 291 i
in
Whom, even we inherit,
proorisqe,ntej kata. pro,qesin 301 A foreordained as per Temple
'Shewbread' Plan;f 49
tou/ ta. pa,nta evnergou/ntoj 308 A Through Whom He works out
all things,b 7
kata. th.n
boulh.n tou/ qelh,matoj auvtou/ 320 h per His Own Standards of Delight,
Will-and-Purpose:
12 eivj to. ei=nai h`ma/j eivj e;painon do,xhj auvtou/ 334
to the end that we be [made into] praise for His Glory,
tou.j prohlpiko,taj evn tw/| Cristw/| 343 J
the
1st 'fruits' of those trusting in Christ;
35
49 + 7 + 35 = 91
13 evn w-| kai. u`mei/j
avkou,santej 352
In
Whom, even you also hearing
to.n
lo,gon th/j avlhqei,aj 360 the [Divine] Word of
[Divine] Truth,
to. euvagge,lion th/j swthri,aj u`mw/n 372 the Official Announcement
of your Salvation;
evn
w-| kai. pisteu,santej 379 in Whom, even believing,
evsfragi,sqhte
tw/| pneu,mati388 you were sealed by the [Holy] Spirit
th/j
evpaggeli,aj tw/| a`gi,w| 398 with Heritage Pledge by
that Holy One; K
14 o[ evstin avrrabw.n 404 This One (Spirit) is Downpayment N
th/j
klhronomi,aj h`mw/n 412 on this inheritance of
ours,
eivj
avpolu,trwsin th/j peripoih,sewj 425 I,L,M
into Redemption [price] of [us as] The
Possession: d
eivj e;painon th/j do,xhj auvtou/ 434 G,A,J
resulting in,
praise for His Glory. 91
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OUTLINE
Verses 6, 12, 14 are
anaphoric, dual-entendre: How God Glorifies Christ and thus is Glorified,
using Church.
Verses 3-6, Father Glorified and Glorifies His Son, 21
sevens, Temple Building D,
J
o
verse 3 through
1st clause in verse 4, dramatic opening flourish Prologue (like John begins his Gospel and 1John) -- a 56-syllable
doxology and dateline. See Verse 4 note and End Note a on '56'.
o
1st '91', ten
clauses: second clause in verse 4 through verse 6, Election
Purpose to be sons of the Son.
As a result, Father is Glorified. [Fulfills Isaiah 53:12 due to
contract in Isaiah 53:10, Matt16:18 and prayer in John 17. Juridical basis: Election of Christ, so we
are elected IN Christ, Isa52:13, 53:10, 12. j, l]
Verses 7-12, Son Glorified via Church, 28 sevens, Temple
Voting E, J
o
2nd '91', ten
clauses: verses 7-9, Spiritual
Assets Election for spiritual growth for building
and operation of Church Temple aka Body of Christ.
o
Verse 10, Trial
Purpose to wrap up all history, Time Bridge back to
Israel and Millennium.
o
3rd '91': verses 10b-12, FirstFruits Presentation
Purpose of History. As a result, Christ
is Glorified.
Verses 13-14, Spirit Glorified and Glorifies Son by Making Church, 13 sevens (number play on 12 tribes with Joseph's double-portion)
Temple Construction and
Function, Royal Family of Christ
o
4th '91', ten
clauses: verses 13-14,
inclusive. Not divisible by seven until
the end. j
o
Verse 13, Sealing
Ministry
o Verse 14, He functions as the Downpayment on our Inheritance, Agent of Spiritual Growth. As a result, Spirit is Glorified. [Due to the Election of Christ, it's justifiable that God Himself make us, since we are the Asset of Christ. Idea that we are His Inheritance, so it's not a compromise to Righteousness to intimately relate to us.]
The
ten-clause structure of each '91' paragraph is vital: each clause 'talks back to' its counterpart in the
next '91'. Like John in
1John, Paul uses a tic-tac-toe outline
form of rhetoric. Thus
you know exactly what Paul means.
Greek and Bible rhetoric frequently stress importance
by repeating small differences
versus the prior text. This
style is used to advance the meaning of an idea. You'll see the Lord and the writers do it
with OT quotations, which is known as 'interpretative quoting'. Modern example: 'Give me Christ or give me death'. Obviously I changed the famous Patrick Henry
quote by one word, substituting 'Christ' for the original 'liberty'.
Paul takes what he'd just said and slightly changes it
to show the relationship between
the prior text and the changed text, so you know exactly what
he means. Since the text is ropingly
repetitive, we Christians miss this rhetorical technique (and especially its
import), which is rampant in Bible (i.e., that's why we have four Gospels, not
just one). The purpose of
repeating and then slightly changing previously known text is to show how the
CHANGE RELATES to that previous text.
It's especially important in legal contracts, and that's what we have
here: Paul outlines the Legal
Inheritance Provision OF Christ, and therefore IN Christ.
[See: I just did a tic-tac-toe, changing OF to IN, and
you thus learned the RELATIONSHIP due to that little prepositional change. That's exactly how the NT writers do it, so
to see that, track the preposition changes right here in Eph 1:3-14. Then do that with any Bible passage. Can't tell you how often my pastor admonished
us to 'track the prepositions' and 'track the definite articles', in order to
know the writer's 'flow' of discourse;
else, you don't really know what he's saying. So, that's what I'm doing here!]
To see this tic tac toe, print out the three Greek pages and lay them on a
table or floor; side by side, such that each '91' paragraph is horizontally
beside the next, in verse order.
Now, start with the
first clause in the first '91', verse 4's "In
Him before the founding of the world".
Next,
read the first clause in the second '91', verse 7's "In Whom we keep on having
Redemption".
Next,
read the first clause in the third '91', verse 10's "To Sum, gather under One Head".
Finally,
read the first clause in the fourth '91', verse 13's "In Whom, even you also hearing".
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Do
the same for each second clause, then each third clause, etc. Then do it vertically, matching the similar
words to the next such similar clause in the next '91'.
In short, all these
clauses link horizontally and vertically, just as building blocks. Showing the INTERTWINED function of
Trinity. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. TEMPLE. Tic-Tac-Toe with ALL X's (Christos!),
Full Circle, Ultimate Palindrome.
Awesome stuff!
Two Extra Observations: First,
I get the strong impression Paul not only invokes Daniel 9's prayer to Restore
the Temple as rhetorical basis for Paul's meter, stressing the 62 'weeks' of
Dan 9:1-13's and v.16's meter, and God's explicit use of 62 in reply, Dan 9:25;
but Paul also invokes Isaiah 63, especially the 'year of redemption' clause
in Isa63:4. That chapter is
structured as verses 1-9 Son, 10-14 Spirit, 15-19, Father. Isaiah himself benchmarks keywords in Isaiah
53 and Psalm 90. Daniel also invokes Isaiah 63:15-19, in Daniel
9:15-19. What a shock. So maybe Isaiah 63 is metered, too? Paul definitely invokes it as the legal basis
for his structure here, for look at how Isaiah 63:7-10 act as a biography for
the origin of Church. See also Romans
11.
Second, that
Paul demonstrates by this meter structure, how Church Has Its Own Better
Deal due to Christ's Success at the Cross, ergo his running sotto-voce warning, don't be
jealous of the Jews. By using the same Hebrew Meter as in the OT, Paul
stresses Juridical Continuity,
so we are not to interpret what he says as replacement of
Israel. It's not Juridical Continuity,
if the covenant prior, is broken. And
Paul's showing that in fact the OT covenant is NOT broken, but rather Church is
being used as the Time Bridge To Fulfill The Covenants To Israel,
Eph1:23, Romans 11. [Book
of Hebrews is built around Ephesians; but Paul didn't write it, he'd just died,
Hebrews 13:23. Hebrews stresses
'better', Attic kpeittwn; so we know that God's Promise to Israel is to
be fulfilled via Church Time Bridge: Hebrews 11:39-40 shows that context of Juridical Continuity, from Abel
forward.]
OVERVIEW: Verses 3-14 are all one sentence in the Greek. So you are to read them as a contractual whole, with subsections. Legal language: idea that nothing is defined outside the context. That sets up for both Paul's prayer in verses 15-23, which doesn't close, and for the second chapter's two walls. [It now looks like Paul treats 1:15 through 3:19 as a whole, also; meaning, text between 1:23 and 3:15 is a parenthetical explanation; his actual prayer is bifurcated, so you are to read the prayer as bookended, with 1:15-23 as the left bookend, and 3:15-19 as the right bookend. Writer of Hebrews does the same thing but with Jeremiah 31:31-34, left bookend at Hebrews 8:8-12, and right bookend at Hebrews 10:15-17. That means he's talking back to this 1:15-3:19 passage in Ephesians, too. Have to study that idea further, since I don't recall my pastor (back in 1985-1991) noticing that parallel structure; he noticed and explained the Hebrews bookending style, but treated the two Ephesians prayers as separate, first unfinished, latter as finished. It was a very important hermeneutical point, to him. Only now, do I see why.]
In short, the election of Church is separate
from all other covenants. You are never to read the covenants prior or
future 'into' the context of verses 3-14, because all other such covenants
are outside the sentence. ELECTION OF CHURCH is the
theme of the book. Doesn't mean
there were no other elections, but does mean that no other
elections (and hence blessing contracts) are in view. In Chapter 2, Paul talks about how Church
relates to the other covenants; Church
is its own wall, and the other covenants are the other wall.
Still, here in Ephesians 1 Paul deliberately parallels
OT covenants, to show precedence and carryover. Bride has her own 'deal', but it's based on the
past. All Justice is founded on
precedence. There must be a contractual
reason to abrogate a covenant and start a new one; whatever went wrong in the old contract,
remains a juridical issue in the new one.
Consistency and precedence are the foundation of jurisprudence, especially
God's.
Christians disregard God's jurisprudence (click
here for definition), when reading
Bible. So Ephesians 1 (like Daniel 9) in
translation is churchy, snoozy, gee-whiz-look-how-God-loves-us. So the reader misses what Paul says!
One can see how Catholics and Reformers, mistakenly or with malice, read Israel OUT of God's promises. They ignore the separateness of the legal grammar structure, above. Something old (precedence), something new (covenant), something borrowed (learning from the past covenants in the OT), something blue (God's Fealty in all Covenants, dispensations).
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Bride could have been Israel, but Vashti refused to come. So Church (including any Jews who believe) is The Esther, whose job is also, to protect the Jews. All other covenants for Israel were unilateral and unconditional, sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So they are yet-to-be-fulfilled. The only conditional covenant was the Brideship. We end up being that Bride. Brideship is a separate contract, sourced in Christ via his pre-Israel kata-Melchizedek Kingship (Battlefield Royalty Award for defeating Satan, Psalm 110, Hebrews 1-2). So it does NOT negate Israel's own covenants that were unconditional, delivered also due to Christ as Seed (Galatians 3), but initially provided and thus precedentally sourced in Abraham, Moses, David. So Ephesians 2 shows TWO walls.
I cover the Two Walls and the changeover at length in http://www.brainout.net/LordvSatan2.htm#CovProps and http://www.brainout.net/LvS4aContinued.htm#Bridal .
It's vital to account the covenants and their terms,
legacies, and above all, named
beneficiaries. If your aunt
named you as a beneficiary but someone else came in and claimed your aunt
replaced you with a third party, the Judge would demand proof, else 'you'
remain the beneficiary per your aunt's will.
Same, for God's Will. there are no other named beneficiaries for the
millennial and eternal ot promises except israel through abraham, moses, DAVID
and christ.
But prejudice like anti-semitism, affords a handy
excuse, for Bible misuse. Even, for
centuries. Anti-semitism is the worst spiritual cancer in the Body of
Christ. Sad thing is, all the major
denominations have it in their doctrines of Replacement Theology, preterism,
'we are the lost tribes', amillennialism, denial-of-Rapture, etc. 90% of Christianity! No wonder Christians are hurting. End Commercial Message...
Paul's meter apes Psalm 90's both in content and structure; he apes Daniel 9's, in purpose; all to show God's Use for Time. Psalm 90 began with a Decree Antiphony, first 84 syllables. Isaiah split that Decree into bookends of 42's: first half, Isa52:13-14; last half, 53:12. (Isaiah 53 starts at 52:13, in Hebrew.) Daniel invokes the 84 in Dan9:14, 17 in 42-syllable bookends like Isaiah, thus claims the Isaiah promise based on Psalm 90's 84, to invoke the 1Kings 9 contract.
So Paul splits Psalm 90's 84, into four 21's. [There are also four 21-syllable 'paragraphs' in Psalm 90, one per epoch: verse 4, Millennial; verse 8, Adamic; verse 9, Noahic; verse 16, Israel in Diaspora. See my Psalm 90 playlist in Youtube; or, view the same videos at the bottom of http://www.brainout.net/Mirroring.htm . They comprehensively review how Moses tracks All Scheduled History in Psalm 90's Hebrew. Also see End Note d, j in this document, on the use of 21.]
Paul thus weaves the Temple-building result of
Daniel's prayer into four 91's = one year (364), starting at verse 5, plus a
'Messiah's Vote Precedence' of 70
(56+14);
hence Paul's own verses 3-14 = 434 syllables,
just as
o Daniel summed his meter tally to 434 by Daniel 9:13, and
o
made Daniel 9:16
= 62 syllables; so
o God made Daniel 9:25 (also metered) a '62' Promise;
o
so Paul's verse
3-14 meters sum with the same 62 = 434, to show we are IN the 'time bubble'
of Daniel 9:26c.
Moses used five 70's to signify The Schedule Of All History (sabbatically, via believer voting periods). So, he subdivided his meter, thus: 84 (70+14), 70, 70, 70, ending with '56' (70-14, warning Israel would be 14 over her Time Budget).
Hence Paul parallels Moses' Psalm 90, updates the '70' to '91'; for the Last Adam, won! [See End Note j on '91'.] So Church has its own Time: whatever it takes, to fulfill the Time Promise God made, in Genesis 3:15.
Paul, like Moses, then brackets the '14' TWICE to show it will be fulfilled future of his own writing. [See End Note g, Verse 10 note, Pregnancy 1, Pregnancy 1b, Pregnancy 2 and Pregnant14, below.] This set-apart, bracketing, bookending, tallies to Psalm 90:16-17 and Isaiah 53:12, respectively. (14 over and then short in Psalm 90, at beginning and end; Isaiah brackets it by DEBITING 28 from the total, 490 - 28 = 462, the number of syllables in Isaiah 53.) So Paul too asserts both Trib and Mill, are yet future.
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Paul thus nests his meter, playing on Chronos, Greek god of time, who ate his kids as soon as they were born. For of course Paul is writing to the Greeks, so he makes analogy to the Real God, using ideas they all know. As you'll see in the Pregnant Expectations section, Paul cleverly nests Hebrew meter with famous Greek epic (10-11 syllable) meter, again to show the culmination of Time, via Church. So each divisible-by-7 paragraph can grammatically stand alone, yet is unfinished. With a grand, recurring enjambment (see End Note c), the line OF the breakpoint (where divisible by 7) introduces content of the next 'paragraph'. That's a feature of classical Greek rhetoric, to begin a new clause based on the content of the one prior. It's also a feature of Bible Hebrew. This is the ultimate palindrome, not only in meter, but in content. You can read Ephesians 1:3-14 either forwards or backwards. Full circle.
In short, Paul's style is dramatic. Those who allege his style is koine will misread what Paul says (i.e., Ephesians 1:7 and 14 are about ASSETS of salvation YOU USE, not sterile gee-whiz-I'm-saved-so-I-don't-have-to-name-sins-to-God). My pastor made a big stink about Paul's Drama Greek style, never mind whether his words were superficially koine. The meter here proves that decisively, for he concurrently uses classical epic (10-11 syllables) and Hebrew meter.
The
meter is also subdivided into three 'Glory' sections, see End Note n and the Outline. Verse 3 begins the
'Father-Glory' subsection, how Father glorifies Christ -- answering His
Prayer in John 17 -- Who is glorified by bringing Church to completion. Subsection runs through the end of verse
6. The first word in Greek is eulogetos,
and Paul plays on that sound: eulogetos, eulogesas, eulogia. That Trinity soundplay is quite elegant in
Greek, but it sounds chirpy and phony in English; so I translated eulogetos as 'Worthy
of Honor' (my pastor's translation),
rather than 'Blessed', since 'Blessed', 'Blessing' and 'Blessing' repetition
won't sound elegant in English, but rather hypocritical. Or worse, that God is blessed because He
blesses us, which is contrary to what Paul says!
First Clause:
This is a doxology, dramatic opening to Father. See End Note a. Paul plays on sound in each clause, as just
noted above. It's also better to say
'Worthy of Glory' given the Trinity epainon anaphora Paul employs in verses 6,
12 and 14, so the reader sees that connection in translation. My pastor's translation was "Worthy of
Praise, Honor and Glorification", so he referenced the anaphora, too.
Second Clause:
Continued. See End Note b.
Third Clause: More soundplay.
Fourth Clause: Greek en pasei
eulogiai pneumatikei is also soundplay,
but its meaning needs much more explanation. You can't translate its meaning,
in English. We snooze and ahh at 'every
spiritual blessing', yet have no clue what that means. So here's your clue: if you
have the Spiritual Blessing, you have all the material ones, too.
Christ said, Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God,
in Matt. 6:33; Luke 12:31. First things
first. For, you have a bizillion
dollars; that won't do you a bit of good, if you don't know how to use it. You must learn how to use what you have,
whether a little or a lot, and that's also why the Lord said, Faithful In
Little, Faithful In Much, Luke 16:10, 19:17. So, first you have a little, you learn how to
use it well, and as a result you get more.
So, first you learn a little about your spiritual assets, then use
what you learned, and then you get more.
Now think this over: since
your assets are spiritual, you have to LEARN them. So, that requires what? TIME. Time to study. Time alone.
Time to think. And you know what
that means: you have to have MONEY, so you can have the TIME, to study. For you need money to live, and working costs
you what? Time. If your life is complicated with people and
obligations, well then you need circumstances that somehow save you Time. Get the picture?
Have you noticed? Every
Bible hero spent a lot of time alone.
You go off by yourself for set times to learn, study, think. And yes, you attend teaching (church is to
attend teaching, not socialize). But
then you have to think over what you heard, not just forget it. Forgetters, James 1:23-25. You 'do' the Word by what? Thinking about it. Can't do what you don't know, and can't know,
if you don't think it over!
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So you must organize your life, to get that Time to Study. And you will, if you Want To Learn. Thus you are indeed seeking the Kingdom of
God, since you are seeking to learn it.
Him.
So God will CREATE the Time, the Money, and whatever means are
needed, so you CAN learn.
So if you don't have those things, either a) you're not seeking, or b)
you think you should do it on your own, so you're not Asking God.
ASK Him.
You'll be very surprised at His Response. More time and money than you can
imagine. But of course, if you want to
spend it on something other than Him, well.. you'll end up losing it. And you will eventually lose it at times,
even when you want to learn Him, to refine your motive in having it.
Training in Having First the Spiritual Assets, and as a result, the
Material. Because
you need the material, logistically speaking, to get the spiritual. Once you have the spiritual, you still
need the material to PRACTICE your spiritual learning assets ON the material. To express your learning. You always have tension between spiritual and material, Romans 8. At times you must stress the material, as
whatever you receive, you own; whatever
you own, owns you.
It's a funny thing about wealth. A lot of money can easily be worse than
poverty. Why? Because wealth TAKES UP TIME. So to get time to study, you must have the right
kind of wealth, in the right amount, lest the wealth actually Eat
the Time you needed for study.
So that right-kind-and-amount question might result in you seeming to have too little money, relative to your expectations about what frees up your time. So ask God how to Find the Time in the position He gives you. Then watch what happens. It will always be glitchy -- remember, the demon boys don't want you to learn Bible -- but God will always furnish you with the answers if you keep using 1John1:9 and asking Him, Hebrews 11:6. He will prosper you more. The right amount, at the right time, in the right way, to Have The Time To Learn Him. And that's true wealth, baby.
To get a sense of the wealth God makes OUT of your study,
skim http://www.brainout.net/LvS4b.htm#1stFacet
. My pastor spent
seven years explaining 'every spiritual blessing' (in his 1985 Ephesians
series); so in that webpage I tried to classify what
he'd taught. Better still, get the
series yourself, at http://www.rbthieme.org
. They never ask for money.
So Paul's Greek en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, also invokes what
people knew from the Mosaic Law, Leviticus 26 and Deut 28. That's what the Sermon on the Mount, also summarized. God set up Israel to be the Blessed Nation,
so everyone could know HE was God. So
people could Vote with their Feet to Learn This God. That's why He blessed the weather, the crops,
the people with all kinds of genetic talents, looks, you-name-it: which even
today, the Jews are so famous for having, there are hundreds of jealous myths
about them. To advertise that
the God of Israel is the Real God.
Of course, going with
all that advertised prosperity, was a sober warning: TEACH THEM.
KEEP STUDYING ME. Israel failed
to do that. So, look at how she's been
punished for centuries now.
Heartbreaking. So for Church,
it's the same warning, but at a higher level.
And look how we've been suffering, too.
We aren't seeking Him. So, we
hurt. Katrina mostly hit the Bible
belt, you know.
See how much more is meant by en pasei
eulogiai pneumatikei?
It's real, it's literal, it's vast, and it can't be translated except
with snoozy church words everyone knows but no one understands!
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Fifth Clause, Greek epouraniois doesn't mean 'in the
heavens', but 'those living in the heavens'. Preposition 'epi' distinguishes the inhabitants
from the place. Greek ouranios,
which Paul uses in verse 10, means the place.
Big difference. See, a blessing fuzzily defined as 'in
heaven', masks the shocking import of what epouranios means:
Your blessing is NOW,
right down here,
is PUBLIC AMONG those in heaven, en epouraniois.
Angelic Trial, baby:
that's a Big Deal.
Your dead gramma or great-uncle knows what
you've got in Christ. You don't
know. Every elect and fallen angel
knows. But you don't know. And they all wonder -- only at times, they
do other things, y'know -- they wonder if you will ever LEARN what you have.
When my pastor taught this, he'd often bring up
an analogy to a kidnapped Royal heir.
The King and Queen spared no expense looking for him. Finally they found him with the gypsies in a
circus. The kid, of course, had no idea
who he was, he had been kidnapped so young.
A lot rides on whether you do learn, for none of us is an island. This Angelic Trial is the purpose for
Church, too, and that's what Paul introduces here. If I screw up during a day (and I do, many
times) -- that has an impact forever.
Using 1John1:9 can cancel that impact, or at least modify it, depending
on God's Justice Rules. At my stage of
maturation, I expect some discipline remains to train me; I'm not a kid, anymore. I expect some of what happened became a Trial
Issue, so I must redo some practice. (Greek word pragma often in wordplay for
Trial Matter, Paul will elliptically use in verse 10; which the writer of
Hebrews picks up, in Hebrews 11:1.) And there will be gain, as there was a
loss. That's how God does things, Isaiah
54:1.
UPSHOT: it's all PUBLIC.. up there. Think of Royal Family on TV. That's YOU, on Divine TV.
o Paul's
doxology is meant to be instructive:
you are a PUBLIC PERSON.
o What
you are down here, stopped being an issue when you got saved. What you are UP THERE will forever
matter.
o So,
en pasei eulogiai pneumatikei, Every Spiritual Blessing, is PUBLIC.
o So
what do you do with what you have in Christ? That's the Trial Issue.
o
Furthermore, this epouraniois
clause introduces the theme of the Book: Church is Public,
Body of Christ is On Trial, so What Completes Church, Completes History.
o Trial
ends, with Church (verse 10). The
rest, is Epilogue.
Are you freaked out? You should be. If Christ was watched by everyone (and He
was), what do you think is true for us?
We are Body. Why does everyone
obsess over Christianity? Why aren't
they obsessing as much over Buddhism?
More people are Buddhists in the world, than Christian. Why aren't they
obsessing as much over the Hindus? Many
more people on earth are Hindu, than Christian.
Why do the Buddhists obsess over Christianity? Why do the Hindus? Why do the Muslims? And for God's Sake WHY does everyone pick on
the Jews?
You see: we are PUBLIC, because ours is the Real
God. Everyone knows that. Hates it, laughs at it, but knows it, just
the same.
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We are much more public, in heaven. Just as those Bible people whose lives we
often know by heart, our own lives are on public view, being commented
on. So when you decided whether to wear
a pink tie or dress, and had your petty thoughts, it was all broadcast to
heaven. Live, like the 1999 movie Edtv,
starring Matthew McConaughey. When you
learned something you found important about God, that was broadcast, too. When you go to the toilet, make love, eat
dinner.. all public. To the epouranioi,
who decided to peek in on you. Some of
them are elect angels, 1Pet1:12. Some
are fallen, ibid. Some are probably your dead relatives, that's a
logical corollary, for if angels are interested, wouldn't your relatives be,
too? Etc.
Just as those Bible people's lives are public
consumption down here, so our lives are public consumption.. up there. Think about it. Smile, You're on Divine Candid Camera!
[My pastor taught that angels can't read our
thoughts. I have to disagree with that,
partially. Since we are on Trial, a
theme he taught stridently, it's not fair disclosure if our thoughts can't be
read. So I posit that some kind of
Divine Broadcasting System is provided, either on an ad hoc or on a
blanket basis, probably the latter, the idea being that anyone 'up there' can
eavesdrop at will. Why? To demonstrate the Trial issues. Most of our lives, are lived in our
heads. What we say and do, often is
counter to what we think. It would be an
essential Trial 'discovery' (legal term) issue to have our thoughts,
disclosed. So, they are.]
Again, my pastor spent
seven years showing the ties to Eph1:3, pan-Bible. Royal Family. Us.
Public. In Him. What we do, determines history forever. He taught that over and over. 'Not only down
here, where the Justice Consistency Requirement of Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy
28 principles obviously apply.. but forever.
"As goes the believer, so goes the client nation to God", my
pastor often quipped. Yeah, and we are
what? A "holy nation",
1Pet2:9. So in whatever nation we live,
we are to be good citizens and thus a blessing to it, 1Tim2, Romans 13. For in heaven, we are forever citizens -- and
the earthly kingdoms, all belong to CHRIST -- Philippians 3:20 (see also Eph
2:6, 19).
So, we are On Display. Just
as Christ was. And of
course, still is. He's the REASON WHY we
too are On Display, Hebrews 11:1 (in Greek, verse is mistranslated, see my http://www.brainout.net/Heb111.htm).
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Paul continues the Father-Glory subsection. First clause
ends the previous 'paragraph', ropes (piggybacks) as is good classical Greek
style, to introduce the next paragraph.
The next paragraph, beginning at the second clause, is about the content
of the Election which Glorifies Father.
It runs through the end of verse 6.
First clause, double-entendre
syntax: Father elected; but Christ also had to and did, elect Church in
Matt16:18.
Paul uses a 56 dateline for when he writes: End Of Christ's 56th Year. [See End Note a, Meter Tagging Styles, and Pregnancy 1 on '56'.] That's S.O.P., first divisible-by-7 'paragraph' is a dateline. It's also 56 sevens from when Alexander the Great became King of Macedon, who also died at age 33. That would matter, to Paul's Greek audience. A Better Alexander is here, and He DID Conquer the World for all time! [If Paul writes Ephesians during his Acts 21 imprisonment in Jerusalem, 56 would correspond to our dates; that would explain why the rest of the chronology here -- see the Chrono Chart link -- so closely matches our dates. Maybe it was SENT, later. Tychicus was in both places, with Paul.]
So Paul resets Time Accounting to Christ's Birth, to
show Time is rebirthed, too.
[My timeline in http://www.brainout.net/GeneYrs.xls,
ties the 490s to Christ's death. Paul
instead benchmarks 490's from His Birth.
So subtract 33 from each of the 490 endings in GeneYrs.xls, see what new
historical patterns, might emerge. God
tracked David's 490s to the endings of his kingship and death, but also
tracked his birth to the 400th anniversary of the Exodus (which you can't see,
until analyzing 1Kings 6:1); so the
490's of Christ would likewise benchmark at death, surely; but what tracks
should benchmark forward from His Birth, I'm not sure yet.
God benchmarks from births, deaths, crownings, other
events; each is an accounting track;
they all converge. So the accounting
basis for each time track must be deciphered, or you'll go in circles,
frustrated. Example: Psalm 90 runs on four accounting tracks: from Flood, from Israel's slaveship, from
Adam, and from the year Moses writes, to the appointment of human kings. All those tracks are embedded in the meter.]
See also Galatians 4:4 in Greek, which plays on Christ's Chanukah birthday. (Bible Proof that Christ was born on Chanukah is covered here: http://www.brainout.net/PassPlot.htm#HisBday , including timesaving videos.) So Paul just can't help but quip Gal 4:4, since Chanukah coincided with the Roman Saturnalia: Greek god 'Chronos' is another name for Saturn, famous for eating his kids as soon as they were born. Hence Saturnalia at end of year, time eaten, time born. Get the pun? Christ comes in Full-Term Pregnancy of Time, and is Eaten to Deliver Time! So Paul wittily uses pleroma in Eph1:10, see End Note e. [Bible debunkers ignore the many problems with Varro's 'auc'. Review Roman Chronology problems for details. Claudius mandated this calendar for Rome. Our bc/ad system is based on it: 753AUC = '1BC'. More on this topic is covered in Appendix I, here.]
Anno Domini Accounting:
Years From The King
(Click here for the Appendix I
bc/ad reconciliation to Paul)
o Paul follows the same dateline convention as Isaiah 53, Daniel 9. Time Theme of those OT passages is first David to Last David. Last David Has Come And Left The Building For Father To Complete, so Paul nee Saul (named after Israel's first king, how apt), writes the conventional date as years-from-the-king, the Last David's Birth. For the brith, changed to Matt16:18's promise when He Successfully Died, Daniel 9:26's 'karat'. Cutting a covenant. Ours.
o Paul writes on or near Christ's 57th birthday, setting up his metrical theme of a 'YEAR' FOR CHURCH (the four 91's). Total syllable count equals Daniel 9:25's 62 weeks ( = Daniel's meter in Dan 9:1-13's 434-syllable total and v.16's 62 syllables), subdivided 364+70. Equals years 1st Temple stood (364) versus its Allotment (490 years, so 126 years remained). Exodus plagues also lasted one year; so too, Noah's time in the boat. (364: day of exit is excluded. New day piggybacked on sundown prior. Paul uses LXX Flood dating, not BHS, see http://www.brainout.net/FloodChronoREVISED.doc .)
o Analogy: our 'time' is like Noah's in the Ark = Christ, awaiting God to say 'come out', Genesis 8:14-16, 1Thess4:17; aka Rapture, Rev 4:1's 'come up here'. Paul here tags Psalm 90:3's 'shuvu' ("Return!", a command) as well, the 57th syllable in Psalm 90. [2Pet3:6-8, a Rapture passage, also pegs to Eph1:4. Notice that Peter ties to the END of the Flood, not the beginning. Harold Camping misuses it, to artificially craft an anti-Biblical timeline in order to cover up his own past mistakes, page 1 of his (nee) rapture-proof.pdf : http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/proof/proof.pdf . However, Camping's gaffe helps us see what Peter DID mean. Peter concurrently points to Psalm 90:4, Eph1:4's bookending 56 meter, with the selfsame ellipsis in Eph 1:14, tying it to the Flood's LAST 57 in Genesis 8:14-16, which was precedence in the Mosaic law for the last 57 years of history preceding the Millennium.]
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o
Precedence: Christ
had all humanity 'in' Him on the Cross, Romans Chapters 5-6; just as Noah had
all humanity 'in' him in the boat.
Paul also uses the 56 (and its
split-factors, 28) to ape and tag specific passages
of the same syllable counts in
o Psalm 90 (http://www.brainout.net/Psalm90inHebrew.doc),
o Isaiah 53 ( http://www.brainout.net/Isa53Hypo4Dotted3.JPG), and
o Daniel 9 (http://www.brainout.net/DAN9V4-19HebOnePagerPARSED.RTF) --
o
as a Warning
T0 Vote.
o So the tagging, is a form of antiphony. [See Note a, Pregnancy 1 , and Meter Tagging Styles.]
o
Paul thus ends
verse 14 at 434 syllables
= 490-56, as the Entire Church Age is Dan 9:26's 62nd
'week', yet to finish.
Many scholars know that separateness-of-Church
and 'Daniel 9:26 time-bubble' meaning in Ephesians 1 and 3; but they don't know
how it's stressed and intertwined, within the meter.
Many of the debates over Daniel 9's interpretation are
conclusively resolved, once you see the interplay of the meter as a
cross-referencing system the writers use to point to other Bible
passages. Daniel's meter usage in
particular, would resolve the hoary debate over when Daniel wrote; for like
other Bible writers, he DATELINES when he writes, by a specific metric
convention (first sevened paragraph).
We see that convention from Moses forward; it can be checked pan-Bible; so
it can be independently verified.
Daniel also includes certain biographical dates with respect to himself, Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar that you find in the text; but to also find it in the meter, well.. you get certification of the traditional early date for Daniel (i.e., 607-538BC), given that meter is regularly used to Account Time, in the Bible. Confirmed, by the way PAUL uses the Daniel passage, as we'll see throughout this document.
[http://www.brainout.net/Ps90Isa53Dan9Eph1.doc,
footnote E covers the Daniel meter usage line by line. You might want to read it alongside the above
bulleted Daniel 9 link.]
So from this meter, you can see how Paul sets up his
Ephesians 3:18 prayer of 'dimensions' for Church 'Temple' (again,
stressing Church has its own covenant), aka Body of Christ. Thus he also sets up Chapter 2. It's not clear in translation how Paul got
from verse 1:3 to 3:15; not clear, how
he got to Chapter 2. Translation is
jerky, out-from-nowhere.
So in translation, you can't follow Paul's elegant flow;
so what he means, you can't elegantly know. You surely can't tell he apes Daniel,
incorporating by reference four key Bible passages via meter tags!
Ultimate Rule of Hermeneutics is to apprehend the
exact thought of the writer. How
many times we've all heard that rule from our pastors and Bible scholars. Well,
if you don't know the writer's flow, you don't know what he's saying, or why
he's saying it! And here we Know The
Flow, from the meter. Because, it was
popular to memorize aurally; so they
would value Paul's evocative syllable accounting.
Meter was the core of
prophetical accounting. For centuries past, God
Required You To Know When Messiah would Come.
See: for eons everyone was required to know What Time
it was. They learned it while being
weaned: 2100 years until the progenitor for Messiah, then (for Israel)
2100 years more until Messiah came 57 years before The End, then The Day of The
Lord. So those distant from each
2100, were disheartened. Those close to
it, were nervous and goofy, like pre-Tribbers, today. when
was told long in advance, like the Flood. Paul demonstrates this accounting, in Acts
13:20ff.
So notice: post-Temple fall, believers were still thinking in terms of The
Date, which had been long known to be 57 years before the 4200th year from
Adam's Fall. So they were upset the
Rapture didn't arrive, and the public effect was very much like what you see
now with the Harold Camping fiasco. Put
yourself in the believers' place: for
2000 years, they were obliged to count
count count, warn the world of that count, too.
Then all of a sudden, poof! No More Counting?! And what they'd told the world for 2000 years,
suddenly doesn't happen at the right time?
Do you realize now, why Acts 1:7 reads as it does? They couldn't adjust to the change. So, they kept on counting. Paul relies on that attitude, to show why no more counting is needed.
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Due to Israel rejecting Christ, a series of potential
Rapture dates existed, keeping with
the original pre-Church schedule and its 50-year Harvest-the-Gentiles goal.
These dates were a constant
source of speculation, as you'll see in the Gospels, Acts and the
epistles. For if it was a good idea to
have the period last 50 years pre-rejection, and the same people were living
'now', then it was reasonable to expect God would 'shoot for' the same goal. So went the 'logic'. For believers didn't appreciate the
changeover, due to Church. Her existence
wasn't simply to make up for Israel's rejection, as Paul here and the later
writer of Hebrews, will explain. A
wholly new Body was an award to Christ
due to His Success at the Cross, not based on Israel's contract, but due to
'kata Melchizedek', the Psalm 110 promise of Battlefield Kingship for defeating
Satan. Souls paid in advance, for
Him.
Old habits die hard.
The writer of Hebrews, like Paul, will use folks' expectations here to
warn them. [Heb 2, 4, 7, 9, 10.]
Expected Rapture
Dates (Paul's Anno Domini of Christ's Age; allow 3-year variance *). They calculated Rapture backwards from an expected
Daniel 9:27 midpoint. The underlined
links below will take you to that accounting.
Paul uses the anaphora meter, to 'balance' to these dates.
o
63 AD: Year 66 Trib
midpoint, the Lord would have been dead as long as alive; Temple was thus
expected to go down.
o
70 AD:
assumes His age 33+40 years at Temple Down in 73 AD. Trib would begin
3.5 years prior. Temple Down's 40
years balance, repaying the Land for Israel's late entry (40 years in wilderness).
o
77 AD: seven
years prior to the 50-year mark under the old schedule, adjusted for Christ
dying seven years early.
o
80 AD: same idea as
70AD, but using 33+50, rather than 33+40. Temple assumed to die in 83 AD.
o
83 AD: the 50-year
mark, adjusted for Christ dying early (end
of year); Temple would die in 87.
o
84 AD: 50-7 had He
died on time (beginning of year, which
means April);
o
91 AD: the 50-year mark had He died on time. (Had He turned 40 the previous Chislev, then died on
Nisan, which 'becomes' 91.)
* Tribulation timing is based on David dying 3.5 years BEFORE
Temple construction began. So Rapture
can only be pre-Trib. So people then counted backwards from a deemed
mid-Trib Temple Down, to derive Rapture date. Speaking of dates, Our BC/AD accounting comes
from the Roman system. So if Rome were
753 years old when Christ was born, 1 Anno Domini begins then. Since Christ is born at the end of the
Roman year, you must add 1 or even 2, due to the overlap. Also, if Paul wrote just
after imprisoned in Jerusalem,
56 fits; Tychicus could bring the letter later,
the postscript ending Ephesians, written then. For more
info, see Roman
Chronology problems.
Paul will address each of these potential dates, in
order to show that yes, Virginia the Rapture can happen at any time; but
Body is being built and it will take as long as it takes. Of course, the
real concern should have been to grow up
to know him, and also (negatively) to Grow Up because you don't know
if others are growing up faster than you, and the balloon will go up when they
DO. Classical military motivation,
not to be caught with your pants down at Evaluation. Bible uses military and economic terms to
describe Evaluation, since that was how Romans rewarded their troops.
Hence the second clause at 66 syllables, begins a series of what-if-the-rapture-happened scenarios. Total paragraph count will be '21' (77-56), pregnant Precedental Time of Temple Building, Jacob's Time Outside the Land, Noah's thrice-sent dove. So the kosmou phrase ends equivalent to our 68-69AD at start, Year of the Four Emperors; when Paul himself will die and so too, Nero. That's when Tribulation was expected to begin, but for a different prophetical reason: Christ would have been dead as long as he had been alive, a 'mirror'. So Paul benchmarks it, as a 'what if'. Notice the wit, playing on the 66th syllable in Psalm 90: Yeah, eleph heleph! We'd have 'shuvu'd' in Him (Who was) before The Foundation, followed by 7 long-predicted years To Complete Building For Eternity! Philippians 3:11's ei pws, written just after Ephesians, reflects that suddenness. [Greek ei pws ="if by whatever means" (death or Rapture), missing in English Bibles, say Paul Attains (works)! Though even BDAG admits katantaw = to arrive at a destination in life, same verb in Eph4:13! The quoted 'shuvu'd' is also from Psalm 90:3, ending at 63 syllables, leaving seven for the Trib.]
Third clause, at 73 syllables -- another what
if the rapture happens scenario -- Paul
tags Daniel 9:5's 73 syllables
(confessing all Israel had sinned). Like Isaiah before him, Daniel used that verse
metrically as a second dateline, tying back to the end of Psalm 90:
years-from the initial rejection
of God as King, in 1050 bc. (=73
sevens = 511, # years prior to Daniel's writing). For in the Millennium, The
Rejected King Returns. So note how
Paul parallels Daniel: if Trib began at
syllable (year) 66, then it would end at 73; so first Church (@66) and then (@73) the Trib
folk would instead be 'holy', rather than the
'sinners' Daniel rightly confessed. The
Millennium would begin. Ties also to
that same moment in Psalm 90:4, 'ayineyka' in Hebrew (73rd syllable): yeah,
in His Sight, at LAST! Of course, in Isaiah 52:15, 'w'asher lo
shamu' ends the 73rd syllable: for He'd be on earth for all TO hear.
But notice: 73 is not divisible by 7. That would have been syllable 70, einai
hemas, meaning we are to be -- what?
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Next if-the-Rapture
in the same third clause, syllable 77. Here Paul shows what's far more relevant to
Rapture: voting, not date-setting. Yeah, as voting,
not historical events, cause the Rapture (Paul's climactic chapter 4)! Kinda nice
to know Christians this century are no better or worse than those of Paul's
day. Watch...
Syllable 77 is divisible by
seven, so this benchmark is stressed (End Note b). It represents the start of
the Christ's 78th year on His 77th birthday
as the 77th Son of Adam, same year as David's age when he
died. Isaiah metered Chapter 53's
first 77 syllables after the first David's age; so Paul apes
that, just as Matthew 1 and Luke 3 did, both books having been out when Paul
wrote; so Paul uses the same meter, to remind his audience. All the more,
as Temple was foreknown to go down, 33-40 years after Crucifixion. All eyes were on that Temple, mouths
drooling, We might go Home by His 78th birthday! See: date-setting is not new.
Here we gotta get
technical about how Paul benchmarks the 77th
syllable in the third clause of verse
4, to show his metrical wit and doctrinal savvy, which of course is for our
instruction.
o
Isaiah metered
Chapter 53 based on an accounting theme of First David to Last
David.
o
So, Isaiah begins
Chapter 53 (52:13 in Hebrew) timed
to David's lifetime,
o
but with this
twist: first 42 syllables, half of Psalm 90's 84, are about the Decree to make the Last David,
Christ;
o but the meter is timed, to the first David's birth in 1040 bc. [So Isaiah 53 should be metrically read as tracking history from 1040 bc forward. The text has a dual role of tracking Israel's future Countdown to Messiah 1 syllable = 1 year. Thus we learn how to better interpret Kings and Chronicles. Moses had done the same annual tracking, so the book of Judges is designed in 'reply', showing how Moses' tracking came true, which I quickly charted in http://www.brainout.net/Judges.pdf.]
o
Those first 42 syllables constitute the Decree to Make The Christ,
and the Decree that He will die for sins at the hands of his own people,
Isa52:13-14.
o
Then as a result,
the goyim will believe in Him, Isaiah 52:15.
o
That's why
Matthew 1 is rhetorically styled to run
at 42's, but
o
Luke 3, uses the 77 syllables
thru Isaiah 52:15, to incorporate the goyim, as the rhetorical base for
his 77th Son.
o The first David was 77 when he died. [Scholars ignore 1 Kings 1:1-2:39, dismiss 1Kings 6:1 as a scribal error; and favor, errant Josephus.]
o
Paul plays on it as Luke did, but even more so as
Isaiah: 77 as an AGE.
o So Paul meter-maps the third clause in his own verse 4, to the cumulative total syllables in Isaiah 52:13-15, the Decree To Create Christ And Have Him Pay. Notice how keenly Isaiah's text ties to Paul's, here: einai hemas hagious kai amwmous, result of Ultimate Sanctification. [So now we know specifically, what Bible passage God has Paul tag. Meter is like a fingerprint, when you have enough of it. Paul tags Isaiah's unique 77 palindrome in Chapter 53, just as Daniel, Matthew and Luke had done. ]
o
Notice next, that
Paul instead started the 91, in the second
clause of verse 4, at 66
syllables -- why? Well, look at the text -- In Him In Him In Him!
o So notice the palindrome: this third clause in verse 4, ends
with 77 syllables;
o
and there are
also 77
syllables between the ending
paragraph in verse 6 @14,
o
and the start of
the boxed 91 paragraph
in the second clause of verse 4.
o
So a 77, inside a 70! So the Savior Who is the Ultimate 490 (77 aka 70 x 7 aka 490) Votes even as those who will be saved by
Him voted, and thus He is born! And
Who Voted First? "Worthy of
Honor, God-Father", verse 3! See: the nested, metered wit is
phenomenal! Not like that dry reading in
church! Oh, but it gets even better,
watch...
o David in Him, as well as He being in David! Us in Him then, so we can be in Him now, since now He is in us!
o For Isaiah set Chapter 53 to run 1078 years = syllables (remember, your new year begins piggybacked on your birthday, so 1078=1077), with the interval between first David's death and Isaiah's ministry (252 years) in ellipsis between Isaiah 52:15 and Isaiah 53:1. The second ellipsis (364 years) is between Isaiah 53:10 and 53:11, a promise to reimburse Temple Time; which promise Daniel claims in his meter (Dan9:1-13's 434-syllable total and v.16's 62 syllables); so God benchmarked Daniel 9:25 (also metered), into an explicit 62. You can't see why He uses 62, in translation.
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Now examine Paul's text at syllable 77: blemishless (lit., blemish-free animals for sacrifice). No more lo shameynu, 77th syllable in Daniel 9 (verse 6). Instead, hitbonanu, 77th syllable in Isaiah (52:15). The 78th syllable evor (evening) of Psalm 90:4
would have begun; 1000 years dawning on
the Day that is night, Zechariah 14:6-7. See how well Paul tags those OT passages?
Original Millennium was scheduled, had Israel accepted Christ, as the 4200th year from
Adam's fall. Moses shows that schedule, by his own syllable 84 ending Psalm 90:4 (End Note C).
So Paul pegs it, next.
Fourth Clause and 4th what
if the rapture happens scenario, 84, katenwpion autou.
Before Him by His Standard (kata). The l'shmua Stands
Before all; so we all 'report' Him, Isaiah 53:1 (84th
syllable). Daniel's 84th syllable in Dan9:6 is Ha! For then we FINALLY LISTEN Al-Avadeka the
naviim reported. Ya just gotta love Paul's meter-tags. What wit!
First Clause of verse 5:
To craft '91', Paul makes 'In
love', an Attic enjambment (End Note c).
Metrically and grammatically, it belongs to verse 5, but translators
rightly end it in verse 4. So it sticks
out as a bridge. So the rest
of the clause, would tally '91' (91st year
begins on 90th birthday). No Christ, no Plan. the
election is christ, not us. due to christ we are elected. By Means of, by Agency of Love: Christ's.
Not, ours. Paul used the moniker
'Love' for Christ back in 1 Cor 13, climactic passage of His Head to be
completed in Writing so it can get into our heads (1Cor1:5's Greek, His Word in our words).
Then again, one could truncate the first clause into
seven syllables, like this: en agape,
proorisas! For if the Rapture had happened at 91, we'd all be in the air with a shout, as Paul told
the Thessalonians. That clause would
make a good shout, and you'd elide the second O, to make 7 syllables. Since we'd be shouting, 'hemas' would be left
out. Thus Paul plays a
specific-syllable tagging game on his OWN text, as he talks.
First Clause of verse 5, actually ends with 94 syllables,
and also is not divisible by seven. 94 is past the '91' final Rapture date under the old schedule. The enjambment 'piggybacked' the 91, since it's a key date relative to Christ, is
divisible by seven and would be evocative, here. So the 91 is embedded in the 94. The 94 doubles as the mid-Trib point, in the
scenario, when the Tribulation evangelists (the 144k of Rev 7), come home to
heaven (shown in Rev 14). They would
be shouting the same thing, at that point.
But they wouldn't be SONS. So
this is a dramatic way to focus on the text -- you are pre-ordained to
SONSHIP, so think about THAT future, not
escape from life. Sound
familiar?
Rapture date expectations end, with 94. Yet Paul keeps using meter this way, to acquaint us with future Church history. For this passage, plays the same role as Psalm 90 for the Jews. See Paul's Chronology Meter, for that story.
Meter Tagging
Styles We've Seen
Eph1:3's first sevened
paragraph ending at 56, is a deft way to 'tag' Isaiah 53:1+2, :5+6,
9+11.
Each of those passages sums 56 syllables. Paul has 'this thing' for
quoting many verses at once by concatenated catchphrase, i.e., in Romans, here
in Ephesians, Galatians. I didn't
know he'd also do it with meter! Look:
Psalm 90:9+10, 13 through 15, 16+17 are also included. Probably overlapping Psalm 90 verses 7
through 9 (which add to 57), as well.
Eph1:4's second clause began a new sevened
paragraph, 21 syllables long, as you saw. Paul severally tags Psalm 90:4, 8, 9,
16; each of those verses is also 21 syllables. Paul tags these to set up what follows (he'll
also individually tag verse Ps90:7 at end of his own verse
6). So Paul's verse 4 here, second
clause through also the second clause of verse 5 (the huiothesian),
is antiphonal to those Psalm verses.
Compare content, see for yourself.
Awesome wit!
So right away we see these Tagging Styles:
o
First
sevened paragraph is a DATELINE. Here, Anno Domini, the
year-from-The-King, in which Paul wrote.
o
By
individual syllable number, above
examples of 66, 73, 77; and finally 84, on Daniel
9:6. Of course, Daniel repeatedly tags
individual syllables in Isaiah, to create his prayer. So we know Paul knew Daniel did that,
for he aped Daniel.
o
By
aggregate (cumulative) syllable
number, example of the 84 and 77, above. Isaiah
tagged Psalm 90:4; so Paul tags Isaiah, as well as Psalm 90. Which means, Paul knew Isaiah tagged Psalm
90.
o
By a
sevened paragraph's sum, just
illustrated above with 56 and 21. More on the
56 and 21, is in Pregnancy
1.
o
For more
information now, see first section in Meter Notes,
and Paul's
Chronology Use of Meter.
Thus we see Paul deploy meter based
on Moses: in Bible, for 1500 years. It
can be tested. It is deliberate. So what a revolution for hermeneutics, if we
all sought metered passages, i.e., those giving us trouble. Even a old brainout or a young kid, can count
syllables; but full research requires a
cast of thousands, not just one. Think of the JOBS! End
Commercial Message.
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First clause: Greek
en agapei syntactically belongs to verse 5, heads the verse. However, it's not
wrong for translators to have put it at the end of verse 4, see End Note c. Paul is piggybacking the import of verse 5 on
Love (aka Christ, aka Love=God).
Greek
preposition en is a keyword, especially pan-NT. Idea of stressing causality and result by
nuanced use of prepositions, articles, etc. Turns these little workhorses into
racing stallions, driving the meaning of every verse. That is, if you can trace them. Hence, one might argue en should always be
translated the same way, since in Bible you track keywords, to see flow. [Ergo many scholars prefer literal-translation
Bibles like KJV or NASB, to make tracking easier.] Unfortunately, English semantic range of
'in', though now heavily influenced by Biblical usage, is too narrow, vs. Greek
en. So in this passage, where the
MEANS function of 'en' is stressed, I translate it with by, by means of, agency of, with hopefully enough repetition for the
reader to track those nuances. For Paul
repeats the same word, to exploit semantic range. That's a mainstay rhetorical style
pan-Bible.
Greek verb proorizw is better and more
literally translated, fore-order.
Plan. That's Paul's point,
too. A Plan is what you WILL and what
you PROVIDE, with no connotation of forcing. 'Order' or 'ordination' connotes approval of
that Plan. There is no implication of
forcing. In fact, quite the opposite: any
plan has contingencies for events that don't conform to the plan. Hence contingencies that violate the plan are
not only assumed to occur, but have backup plans associated with them. That's the idea here. One might prefer 'predetermine' as the
translation. But even that doesn't have
the breadth of 'foreordain' in English, which we all know means a predicted
outcome that is approved and provided for, not something imposed
upon the recipient.
Think of it as insurance. You
buy an insurance policy which (pretend) simultaneously insures that if you die,
your heirs get money; if you are
disabled, you'll be well taken care of for life; if you need a loan, you can automatically get
it; if you need certain expenses paid,
you'll get that money for those expenses.
Pretty neat policy, huh.
Now notice something: the policy just sits there. It doesn't force those things to happen to
you, but provides funds for those contingencies. And,
it's approved in advance, so you know you can trust it, the issuer has already
calculated the costs, Put Them On Deposit.
That's what proorizw
means. All the costs associated with a
given plan, including all contingencies which the Grantor will act on; and most importantly, proorizw means
these contingencies and their costs are Paid In Advance, and On Deposit, for
the contingency of usage. None of that provision,
forces those contingencies to occur.
You have such an insurance policy, aka
Salvation. Christ paid it all in advance, and the payment
itself was a planned thing in eternity past.
The hitch was, would He Freely Succeed, once Here and on the Cross? Else, there would be no funds. But He did, and you have this policy PAID BY
HIM. Not, forcing you to use it. Not, forcing Him to use it. He contracted to do it, however any contract
can be broken. Yet "in Love",
"by agency of Love", He will honor that contract. See the difference?
English 'predestine' connotes a forcing that
is not in the Greek. Sadly,
theology prefers the harsher 'predestine' with all its English undertones of
no-free-will, fate, Hindu karma, etc.
I think 'predestine' shouldn't be used, given the theological shackles
with which it has been bound.
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Second clause: Greek
huiothesia gets scant attention, in
theology. We but mouth it. Paul uses a culturally-loaded word,
here. Rights of Firstborn Son. Inheritance rights. In Roman custom, there was but ONE heir;
everyone else got specific bequests out from the testator's estate. Often, the heir had the right to overturn
those bequests. So all who were
junior, were beholding to the Heir for their inheritance, as well as to the
Testator.
Point:
WE SHARE IN ALL CHRIST IS AND HAS. My
pastor stressed that, when exegeting this verse.
Point:
if we Christians only grasped how VAST is our inheritance, we'd study
Bible deeply.
You
inherited a bizillion dollars, in Christ.
Do you know how to access your vast wealth in Him? Do you realize, Prayer means you can Ask Anything In His Name and He will do it,
Jn. 14:13f; 15:16; 16:23f? So now the
flipside: if you do not ask, then you are responsible for fallow wealth. Stingy servant with the napkin (Luke 19:20), you will be
punished for not using 1 John 1:9 (an asset, Eph 1:7, 14), for not growing
in Grace (2Pet
3:18),
for not learning and living on Bible.
For the Heir DID do those things, Luke 2:40, Matthew 4:4, Deut 8:3!
Just
start thinking of yourself as the richest person in history. For, that's what you are. In Christ. Once
you recognize this and take it seriously, you'll get serious about Bible. For it tells you what you have, and how to
use it; and baby, you're in deep doo-doo if you don't use your wealth. End Commercial Message.
Third
clause: Greek eudokia is often
translated good pleasure. Paul
dramatically parallels it with the two bouletai uses in Isaiah
53:10's LXX, which is usually translated 'delight' or 'please'. 'Delight' is better, so I used it.
Thus begins
the first of three subsevened anaphora, Drama Greek
rhetorical bookends: this one, 'contains' the Wealth Father put into Christ on
our behalf. Wealth is classy. So you need [Bible!] classes, to learn how to
use it. So click here, for the eudokia
anaphora. See also Note h, and the intertwined
chronology, in Appendix 1.
Fourth clause: Greek thelematos isn't merely Will,
but Purpose. Every time you will
something, there's a reason (good or bad, right or wrong) behind your will. For every will is a decision based on
Something You Will. Get that order.
o
You have content.
o
You decide ON that content.
o
At no point is the content, deciding on you.
o
So you are responsible for whatever you decide, and
o
you are never constrained by the content.
o
Much more so, God.
o
His Purpose is first an Act of Will, Decided upon.
o
So you can never divorce purpose from will, nor will
from purpose;
o
but you can always divorce both from Content,
o
since Will determines how Content will be valued.
So
God's Purpose and Decision isn't forced on Him by a) what He knows, or
b) what He is. HE CHOOSES FREELY,
at all times. All that, is inside the meaning
of thelematos. And it should give
you a great deal of comfort:
o
God isn't choosing you because of you (that's
content),
o
nor will He reject because of you (more content),
o
nor did He devise this Plan because of you (more
content),
o
nor does He remain faithful because He must (content
of Attributes).
o It's all 100% God
and 100% Voluntary At All Times. [See: God truly
is Sovereign, Theos Thelematos. Over His Attributes, not 'constrained'
by them. That childish Calvinist notion of
'constrained' needs to go to the dungheap, in the 21st century.]
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First Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
eis epainon.. doxzes autou.
Father Glorifies Christ
by ordaining us BE Christ's Glory..
Here we also meet a second nested
anaphora Paul uses: the epainon. It is nested partly inside the eudokian anaphora.
So the first Asset in the eudokian asset portfolio, is the
greatest. By Divine Decree, We will
be THE Glory of Christ Himself. It's
shocking, until you respect the fact that God shouldn't settle for
lesser-thans. So, He doesn't. So, we won't BE lesser-than Christ. By Divine Decree! Bride should be worthy of Her Husband. God can do anything. So, He does EVERYTHING.
God is
Infinite. So, we must be also: "be ye Perfect", Christ said. You don't spend time on trailer trash, so God
will not. But we are trailer
trash, compared to Him. So, He did
something about it. Salvation is only the beginning.
This first asset tells you the past-hidden plan from the getgo: ye are Gods, John 10:34-36. The Son of God is the CopyBook, and we WILL BE made copies of
Him. By Divine Decree.
Not equally,
for we don't equally choose to use our eudokian portfolio. But, in aggregate, as a fitted hierarchy,
each to his own self-selected pattern, will be THE Glory of Christ. Some of us (very very few, maybe 1000 in all history) will be kings. The rest, will forever be Royal Peasants who
didn't learn to live on Word as Christ did, but learned other things (works, rituals, people). So, they don't have the Thinking Needed To
Rule. So, they will be ruled.
But even the lowest among us
will be light-years superior to all the human achievements and satanic
achievements in history, combined. What's lauded down here is despised even by demons, up
there.
And
rightfully so, for our ideas of spirituality are despicable. God expelled the Jews for far less rebellion,
than ours. Daniel 9's confession of
Israel's history of rejecting God, is doubly true, for us. We have so much more than she had, as you
will soon see. Assets we ignore or
twist, to make ourselves important to ourselves.
Christians down here pride
themselves on their faith. Meaning, of
course, that God doesn't deserve it. You
realize, I hope, that when people pride themselves on what they do, it means
they hate that very activity, and seek pride as a solace. So when people make a big stink about
THEIR faith, denomination, practices -- they advertise that they hate
those very things. They advertise, to
get compensation. Because, they feel
they aren't getting any.. from God.
When you love someone or
something, in your mind nothing you ever do is good enough. So you never crow about it. If you managed to do something well, you are
grateful, not resentful. You don't
expect anyone's approval, for you never have your own. You constantly strive to improve, because you
LOVE what you're trying to achieve so much, all you want to do is.. more of the
same. You'd do it for free, you'd even
prostitute yourself if need be, to do it.
Love is like that.
Hatred, by contrast, always
feels it gives more than it gets. So is
constantly seeking recognition, approval, and magnifies little goods as if they
were monumentally valuable. Because, to
hatred, everything self does is too much for what it gets in return. Not receiving the return it deems appropriate,
it goes to pride, comforting the self on what sacrifices were made for no gain. Even a cup of water in Jesus' name is given
high status. And, that's as high as
Hatred is willing to go.
Such is the history of
Christianity. So for God to want to make us into His Son's Glory is
warranted, for HE deserves it -- but the
very idea is unfathomable, just the same.
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o Meanwhile, we preen over how
humble we are to insist how low we are. How
arrogant! It's a cop-out,
really. An excuse to be a peasant.
o So, these majority-rules
peasants of Irrevocable Eternal Royal
Birthright, gauge their worth by how well the puny world lauds them,
o their degrees or peer recognition,
o hushed tones and 'oh
brother',
o how many they 'converted';
o and they call their
activities all sorts of sickeningly arrogant names, like 'soul winning'. Oh?
YOU win souls for God? Should he
bow and scrape in gratitude to you?
Yecch.
o They pride themselves on how
nice they are to people, but James condemned it. Christ condemned it even more.
o Christians down here pride
themselves on whether they can spout Bible,
o give to charity,
o and they make sure to pat
themselves on the back for every little good deed they do.. while the angels,
vomit to watch. Jesus I know, and
Paul I know, but who the HELL are you! the demon literally said to the
seven self-righteous sons of Sceva, Acts 19:15.
[My
pastor was particularly fond of reciting that verse. Made the prim folk in the congregation,
wince.]
o Christians pride themselves
on their doctrinal fights, with those most heretical, calling everyone else Heretic!
o Christians take to politics,
when Christ warned against that, and Revelation 17 made it clear that Church in
politics is a harlot.
o Christians account
themselves spiritual if they sing rah-rah Jesus songs -- because oh, there are a dozen verses out
of TEN THOUSAND ON LEARNING TO THINK BIBLE -- well, those dozen sing verses
must be the spiritual life!
o So they gauge spirituality
by how they feel,
o and they think they are
spiritual giants if they can recite Psalm 23.
o They pass judgment on those
whose (usually sexual) sins differ, in order to feel superior.
o They argue about Saturday or
Sunday, wearing hats or dancing, is it Yeshua or Jehovah or Yahweh;
o and, like Tom Lehrer sang.. everybody
hates the Jews.
In short, it's a sandbox,
Christianity. All chirpy all mistaking
morality as spirituality (lol even the Muslims are largely moral); and in
short, FLUNK is their report card. Assets Fallow.
But even so, when the
balloon goes up, they will be to however small a diamond-faceted extent -- a
true Glory of Christ. Maybe one-quarter
carat of the Karat Who was Garroted to the Cross, but still genuinely reflecting
Him. Even Him. Father would have it so; and so it shall ever
be.
So
the values you have now, will reverse.
Up there, ONLY CHRIST will be interesting to you. By your free will choice. Okay, but what will you have to give to
Him? To express your love? Nuthin', if you didn't use these assets. Someone else will have them, and you'll be
under that someone else, mighty grateful and happy, but.. with nothing but a
smile. That's why Christ said, get rich
in Doctrine, 'and all these things [material needs] will be added to you. Yeah, forever. Literal material wealth: for the ruled need
it. For, all they ever learned down here
were body ideas, slapping God's name on everything they wanted, to feel holy.
So they never learned the spiritual life.. which is To Think
Royally.
So
this topmost benefit, Made Into the Very GLORY OF CHRIST -- will be your
heart's desire. With no matching physical assets, if you
didn't learn and live on Bible. As usual,
when God makes great promises, there's a horrific flipside: you'll wish you went after Bible with all
your life, once you're dead. But it
will be too late. No punishment, but nothing atop your naked salvation,
either. And you'll be happy. But low.
Bet you don't want that future...
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So
now, to these Assets. The epainon
anaphora being nested within with the eudokian anaphora, tells you
juridical origin. In short, due to the eudokian anaphora, the epainon
anaphora occurs. As shown in verse 5's note, eudokia references the WILL. Moreover, Paul makes sure you know eudokia
relates to the Isaiah 53:10 contract between Father and Son, via the cognate boulen
in Eph1:11, thus tying to bouletai (twice) in Isaiah 53:10's LXX.
Greek epainon
needs clarification. Technically it's the sum of epi+ainos;
on the surface, it means 'good report' about someone. The 'someone' is put in the genitive
case. But 'good report' doesn't convey
the meaning, here. When you
ARE a praise, it means you REFLECT the object, yourself. [See Thayer's lexicon for epainon, which
notes for Ephesians 1:12 that we ARE the praise. That distinction is very important to the
shocking meaning of this anaphora.]
So someone
looking at you, admires the object you
represent; for you resemble
that object. Thus, the person looking at you, is
doing the praising. Not, you doing
it. All you do, is breathe. Example: when people in the OT saw
an angel, they would often mistake the angel for God, and would fall flat on
their faces, etc. The angel
didn't do any praising of God, the angel gave a message. But the very glory of the angel made
the one seeing him, think of God. That's the
meaning of epainon, here. We will so totally reflect Christ's very Glory, we
will seem to BE Him. Way higher
than, angels (theme
of Hebrews 1-2, 1John 3:2).
Unlike the eudokian
anaphora, which is dramatically complex, This epainon anaphora is
spectacularly simple. Here's how it works. If you said
'Give me Christ or give me death', you replaced 'liberty' with Christ; you would make someone smile, if they knew
the original Patrick Henry quote. Paul
makes this same 'substitution', to convey
astonishing Bible truth. The
exchange denotes how the replaced words are fulfilled. Look:
As we saw in the Outline, the epainon anaphora is about how God
the Father Glorifies Christ, how He ordains Church to Glorify Christ, and how
the Holy Spirit Glorifies Christ. As a result,
Father and Spirit are glorified. Really
shocking. What makes it shocking is the
way Paul makes small changes in the Greek words. These changes make deft
points about HOW Christ is glorified.
The structure is a dramatic tic tac toe.
In Greek drama you drop verbs, and instead use nouns and participles,
as Paul now does, here:
Verse 6: eis epainon doxzes tes charitos autou.
Verse 12: eis to einai hemas eis epainon doxzes autou.
Verse 14: eis epainon tes doxzes autou.
The bolded
text tells you a story: how Isaiah 53:12, gets done. Keywords epainon and doxzes are
used in Isaiah 53:1-2. Idea that His
Glory wasn't appreciated while He was here, and the 'good report' of the
prophets and believers, was likewise rejected.
So, verse 6, the Glory of His Grace will be used
verse 12, to create
us
AS His
Glory, which Reflects Him. Hence,
a good
report of
Him.
So, verse 14, we are made by the Holy Spirit into THE
Glory of
Him.
(In English, to get the force
of 'tes' in verse 14, you should put THE all in caps and make it really big.)
Second Clause: Sometimes repeating words in Greek is elegant, so
Paul uses both charitos and charitow, together. So the only English equivalent was 'graced us
out', which in English is less formal, but more vivid. Paul's vivid, here.
Third Clause: "In the Beloved". Greek en = by means of by agency of
with, and Paul means them, too: all
prepositions, Him. He uses
prepositions as bullet points, meter divisions. Genitive's root idea is belonging-to. So Him to us, we to Him.
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Paul meter-maps
Isaiah 53:9, here. He also tags the
other 28's (see Note E and Pregnancy 1b for the verses) in concert. So we know exactly
what he means, in Ephesians 1:7. No
guesswork.
Every one of
those 28-syllable paragraphs in Psalm 90 and Isaiah 53, are on your sin and His
Redeeming You. So what does that redeeming,
mean? Well, per those metered
paragraphs, ya got two kinds of dying.
One, you die angry at God, so God mirrors your own anger back at you, so
you come to know the 'anger' of God; two, you die wise and happy, knowing
you'll see Him in a few minutes. Not
afraid. Not angry. For, you know He redeemed you.
Second Asset of your eudokian portfolio,
REDEMPTION: ten apolutrwsin.
'Redemption' is the substitution of one item for another.
Christ substituted His Own Life for
ours.
Have you ever seen a coupon?
You can either get whatever's pictured on the coupon, or you can
"redeem" it for a certain (usually small) amount of cash. Just look on any coupon's fine print. In America of the 1950's, it was a craze for
grocery and hardware stores to give you 'Green Stamps'. They looked just like postage stamps, and
you'd get 10 or so every time you shopped.
Then you pasted them into books; and when you got enough books full of
the things, you could REDEEM them for items in the S&H catalog. Took like a bizillion stamps to get a
'free' kitchen knife, but it was fun.
Everyone likes getting
something for free. Except that it wasn't really free. It cost the retailers hundreds of thousands
of dollars, and it took a lot of TIME to paste those stamps into books. So you ended up paying for the stamps via
grocery (etc.) prices, for where do THEY get the money to pay for the stamps
they give away, except from sales? And
then you paid double, with the time spent pasting...
Salvation
redemption is just the opposite. You DO
nothing. Christ DID everything, Romans
5:8, Gal 3:18-22. So Salvation
Redemption means you have a LIFETIME COUPON -- and your life never ends -- a
LIFETIME COUPON of money. He paid it,
you have it. Like, a bank account. Now of course if you never find out the
account number, then all that wealth just keeps on being on deposit in the
Universal Bank of Heaven, doing you no good at all.. until you DIE to this
world, and go home to His.
So then, how do you access your wealth in Him, exchanging
(redeeming!) your puny ideas of life, for His? Ahhh.
You realize, right, that the quality of your life depends on the quality
of your thinking? Bad thinking makes
people sick, poor, get into trouble. So
if you had competent thinking, the quality of your life would improve. Better job, better decisions, better
everything. Whether rich or poor. Whether sick or well. Your life is only as good as your thoughts
are. Petty thinking, jealous thinking,
nasty thinking makes for an unhappy life.
Wealth of any kind gets spent mostly on trying to fix problems, and
inevitably one finds out that the intended fixes, were just loose band-aids or
another buggy computer program. Very
upsetting.
Bible alone can cure it all,
and truly make you happy, no matter what your circumstances. That's True Wealth, and why people even seek
wealth. But only Bible can cure the
SOUL. But you first gotta BELIEVE that
you have the wealth. Then you gotta
BELIEVE it's important to find out what it is.
Then you gotta Study Your Divine Assets Manual, so your LIFETIME
COUPON
doesn't DAM up and you say, 'Damn! What
good is this Bible?' But you open up
that Bible, and it's all words words more fuzzy words. So let's first cover Accessing your Divine
Asset Management Account (ADAMA), so Bible won't stay a DAM gathering
earth-dust while it sits on your coffee table -- so people will think you read
it, of course -- because you rightly have trouble giving a damn about its fuzzy words, the many
denominational fights, etc. ad nauseam.
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Redemption
means You CAN name your sins to God.
Just NAME them. You got ticked off in
traffic. "Dad, I sinned!" You got ticked off at Windows. "Dad, I sinned!" You worried about some bill. "Dad I sinned!" You felt guilty. "Dad, I sinned!" It becomes as quick and natural as breathing,
to REALIZE that 1000 times a day you have some thought which God would never
have, so it's a sin. Anything you do
with your body, of itself isn't the sin:
sin is what you THINK. Body just
obeys THOUGHT.
So it's a big deal, to Just
Name It And Move On, not even stopping to feel bad about it, for -- guilt is
a sin, too! Feeling bad doesn't
ATONE for squat. So you just committed
the sin of HALLUCINATING that how you feel, accomplished something. NAME IT,
move on! You got this LIFETIME
COUPON,
see: it never expires. So naming sin
means Dad writes a check to FIX YOU, from what Son paid on your behalf 2000
years ago! Imagine what INTEREST
accrues on His Payment, 1900+ years before your birth!
Our
use of Redemption is far simpler than what the OT people got; they also had to
o go to the hassle and expense
of finding blemishless animals,
o dragging them to the local
Levite priest,
o putting their hands on the
animal,
o Naming The
Sin
o while the priest cut the
animal's throat.
o Then blood,
o more waiting,
o the smell,
o and you took some of it home
o or ate it there in front of
the priest, (often, not always, depended
on what kind of sin it was).
o And you did
all that, because it was DINNER. With
God. Restored to Peace with God, signified by eating the
animal that just died 'for' you, picture of Messiah-to-Come.
If you're at all familiar
with eating in the ancient world, you have to know that meat was hard to come
by. People lived on milk, fish, cheese,
grains, vegetables. Very small amounts,
too. But here you are, every time you
sin, EATING THE BEST MEAT. And you just
know, people sinned 100 times a day or more.
Life was even more annoying for them, than for us. Still, it was a hassle. Took at least an hour, not to mention,
waiting in line behind all the other sinners with their stinking lambs, goats,
doves, and the doo-doo those animals would excrete.
So
contrast this: Redemption for Church means that since Christ is the Lamb of God
and He paid, there are no more animals to bring, and you are your own priest, 1Pet2:5, 9; 2Peter 1:9 (in Greek, translators forgot to
translate labwn, lol); Hebrews 10. Takes a nanosecond to think toward Father and
admit you sinned, even if you forgot what ones and when, you know you did, so
you admit it. I use 1John1:9 a bizillion
times a day.
Of course, many Christians
think it's too hard, hallucinate that they have to keep TRACK of their sins,
and they feel bad about doing that, so they invent excuses. Like the hallucinated idea that here in
Ephesians 1:7, you're forgiven of all your sins so you don't need to tell God you sinned, anymore. Okay, then you're drawing funds from your own account down here, for the Holy
Spirit won't fill a defiled Temple. You.
For your online banking with UBH requires 1John1:9 as the passcode. No tickee, no washee. So you're not clean. So you're not filled with the Spirit. So you're INCOMPETENT at reading Bible. So you are DAMNED up, and you'll be punished
for it, Colossians 3:25.
[Nerd Note: There's a crazy 'school' of 'scholars' who
maintain that Greek aphesin (next clause) is appositional to apolutrwsin,
here. They clearly aren't using
1John1:9, so that's why they are utterly incompetent. For just as in the OT prospectively, for us
retrospectively, Christ's Payment means you CAN name sins, but you still
MUST do it, to be back in fellowship with God. David explained that, in Psalm 32:5 and
66:18, which is reasonably clear in translation. I did a whole playlist of 1John1:9 videos
showing the many categories of OT verses.
So naming sins is based ON Redemption, and is a function OF it. Here in Eph 1:7, you have an Attic double accusative of cause and result,
not koine appositional usage: my pastor stressed that 1000 times. Paul's language is Greek drama, with DROPPED
VERBS. Very obvious. And all the OT confirms that meaning. Moreover, anyone sane can read 1John1:9 and
know that, since JOHN confessed the same thing (we we we
we we we -- hello?), putting The Funding BASIS in 1John1:7.]
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Idea?
Redemption means Forgiveness In Time is FUNDED -- a) so you CAN name your sins, b) so
you can GROW UP spiritually, not merely be saved as a newborn.
OT saved like David, Moses,
etc. all sinned. We have their sins recorded. David even wrote about how if he did NOT name
his sin, God made him SICK, Psalm 32:5, 66:18!
We just don't need the animal ritual anymore, for the Lamb of God,
Paid. Hebrews 6-10 also warns that NOT
admitting sin -- results in destruction (subtheme since Hebrews 2:1).
You neglect your salvation
assets (Heb 2:1), if you don't use 1 John
1:9. John used it, "we" in
1John1. Like, David, Moses -- for which
Moses wasn't allowed to enter the Land, Deut 32. So we don't enter our inheritance, if we
won't name our sins to God. Babies we
are, and babies we stay. Saved but naked,
1Cor3. The adults (atsumim, in
Hebrew Isa53:12) get the inheritance instead, to spend on the babies. The babies, have nothing. Forever.
No one
learns Bible in a state of sin. A state
of sin exists even after the sin is committed, UNTIL YOU NAME IT to God. And if you don't remember, just say I
SINNED, DAD! You needn't be anal, keeping sin lists, agonize here!
Christianity remains in the
theological playpen for 2000 years,
for Christians won't use
1John1:9.
Can't properly read Bible,
without it.
So, they don't. So, they lose their faith. So, they get punished.
So now let's
talk about what it means, to GROW UP, 2Peter 3:18. Well, if you use 1John1:9 regularly, what's
redeemed? Your thinking. Sin isn't your biggest problem, but its aftermath. Sin is an addiction. As with any other addiction, you CAN say
'no'; but your desire increased with
prior repetition. So it's harder to say
no. Sin is inherently a desire to fit in with the world. Individual sins
themselves are all rooted in that urge. fitting-in. Moral sins, or immoral sins, all try
to FIT IN.
Your body thrives on
repetition, familiarity. It can't tell
the difference between repeating something good, or something bad. To it, repetition of any kind is good. Repetition breeds comfort, fluency,
competence and skill. So if you repeated
a bad thing, its attractiveness grows; a
built-in urge to do it again, repeats upon the next instance of associated
past repetition.
Each successive repetition,
makes the next one, easier; more fun; more automatic. And so it is with sin, too. So it is with learning and living on Bible,
too. But you can't learn Bible in a state of sin. So: naming
sins, is important. You can't access this Divine
Redemption Thinking from Bible, except while you're filled with the Spirit; and He won't fill, a
defiled Temple.
That access
is phenomenal: 'Filling', means Filling
you with Divine Perspicacity. My pastor
called it "Spiritual IQ", and he's right. I'm evidence of it. God makes you smarter as a result of
1John1:9. See, this is a real asset you can use. And you need it, because you need Divine
Smarts, to grasp Bible. So, you can
sometimes grasp in minutes, what takes a scholar, a year or more to
research. Why? Because the Holy Spirit Connects the Dots,
John 14:26. Even a great scholar who's
not using 1John1:9, is trying to connect them on his own power. So, usually he runs around in circles,
grappling with 90 other scholars of 90 other opinions; he's always forced to
hedge. By contrast, in seconds the Holy
Spirit can make the right connected verses come to your mind, John 14:26. Saves you time, angst, controversy. Try it. Use
1John1:9 like breathing, for a month.
Daily. Try to make it a habit. Repeat repeat repeat and it will become as
natural to use the verse, as brushing your teeth.
Then you'll appreciate what
Paul means at the end of this verse 7, by 'ploutos'. Seriously.
Try it yourself. Words won't
suffice; you have to see it in your own
life, to know. Use 1John1:9 like
breathing, make it a habit. Watch what
happens.
That is the
heart of redemption: you are REDEEMED
from 'your empty way of life', as Peter put it, 1Pet1:18. See, all the world has in its mind, is the
world. It has no higher
understanding. But you do -- thanks to
Redemption. Whether you access this
higher way of life, however, is up to you.
Greek word mataios in Peter (and elsewhere) means 'futile',
'empty', and signifies the chasing-after-windmills quality of this life. Chasing your tail, really, for whatever you
gain in this life always bites you at the end.
Instead, the
way God thinks, can become the way you think.
Funded on the Cross, paid by Christ:
THAT is True Redemption. Your sin
nature will buck it constantly, theme of Romans 6-8. But you now have an option for a happiness
INDEPENDENT of the world. Independent of
circumstances, people, what you have or lack.
Again, try using 1John1:9 repeatedly and daily for a month.. see what
happens.
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Second Clause, reason why you have
redemption: Christ paid. Not with physical blood, but with His
Thinking, Isaiah 53:11's bedato yatsdiq.
'Blood' was what circulated in the animal. Its throat was cut. That cut off the pain, but the poor thing
bled to death. A soul has no corpuscles.
The 'blood' of a soul, is thought. Sins
are thoughts. So only
THINKING 'blood' can pay for sins. Just as
Isaiah explains: by means of His
Mastery of Truth Knowledge, He makes Righteous. Not, by bleeding to death.
Third Asset in the eudokian portfolio,
Forgiveness-of-sins: ten aphesin. Sin Insurance.
You name your sin to God, and forget it.
God authorizes the release of funds, as it were, to FIX you.
Forgiveness is FUNDED by what Christ
paid Father, 2000 years ago.
You are always a Child of
God, saved forever. So, there are heavenly
living expenses. You live. You sin.
The sin damages your soul. Now,
if your kid needed lunch money, you'd not say, "well I have it in my bank
account" but give him NOTHING, right?
Okay, so your kid had to
ADMIT he needed money. Even so, your
Heavenly Father waits for you to admit you sinned, to justify spending Christ's
past payment FOR you, ON you. Because,
your kid might try to get the money somewhere else. Because, you might try to 'pay' for your sin,
yourself. Always failing, of
course.
You are
Christ's property and his 'kid', as well.
His Payment to Father is to be spent ON you, Isaiah 53:10 contract. But it won't be spent on you, if you won't
use 1John1:9. So you name sins to God and He what? "purifies you from all malfeasance (literal translation
1John1:9b)." Insurance policy. Errors and Omissions. Damages paid when they occur. Funded prior, paid now.
Paid to do
what? Develop you spiritually. BUY THE WORLD, Time. Hopefully you saw on pages 3 and 4, how vital
it is to the world's weal, that you grow spiritually. Using 1John1:9, is the greatest and only good
deed a human can do. For only God, is
good. So guess how much God must spank
you if you won't use it? YOUR FAULT, if
the world is hurt by your not growing!
That's what ten aphesin means. Sin
insurance. All the
premiums were paid by Christ 2000 years ago.
So USE THE POLICY, 1John1:9. Or you'll never ever
understand Bible, you spit on Christ's Payment;
you hate people, too, for God will only bless them if He grows,
YOU! So you want God to curse THEM, if
you won't use 1John 1:9!
Use
The Credit Card =>
(a teenager made for me in
2008)
Fourth Clause: Note the clever sandwiching placement here. Palindromic, goes forward or backward or
stands alone. Ties back to the first epainon
clause, in verse 6.
The entire passage is like this; each clause stands alone, both
poetically and syntactically, yet there is more. Yeah, always more! And to imagine, this Paul guy was saddled
between two praetorian guards under house arrest in Rome, awaiting Trial. He just DICTATED this right out of his
mouth! So Paul's flow and thinking here, the
awesome GENIUS of it, is a DEMONSTRATION of the very ploutoi he's talking about. Living example, genius writing, easy flow --
Holy Genius, wholly enjoyable!
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First Clause: Greek perisseuw means to overflow like a
flood you very much like: someone 'flooding' you with a bizillion dollars, for
example; opening up the cargo section of a mid-air C-31 transport, the
money only raining down on you.
So the usual translations are fine, and I used my pastor's, though I'm
not too fond of the word 'superabounds'.
Too churchy.
Fourth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Every Class of Wisdom and Clear
Thinking:
en pasei sophiai kai phronesei
God authorizes Release of Christ's Thinking Funds, to Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
When we read words like
'wisdom' and -- I forget how translators phrase phronesei, maybe 'sober
judgment' or something equally appalling -- when we read these words, we sigh
in self-righteousness and learn nothing.
These words were specifically defined in Greek culture, made famous by
Plato and the other philosophers. To the
Greeks, it was all about pleasure on the one hand, and intellectual stimulation
on the other. Wisdom to them was a
thinking thing, and phronesis meant just that: clear thinking. An aphron was a fuzzbrain, someone
incapable of clear thinking, hence the English translation, 'fool'.
So Paul is
using very precise terminology here, and in Greek to Greeks. He's carefully building on what they already
know, and since Ephesians is modeled after Euripides' play Ion, he's
weaving in a famous myth of Greek origin to show them the REAL Origin of Time,
the Real God; so that believers can successfully communicate the Real Plan of Time,
to their fellow Greeks. It's an awesome
thing he does, here.
This is also
a function of Redemption funding. Here,
Paul focuses on the CONTENT of what you can know. Redemption itself is a series of funds, so
Paul now must list them severally. All
of them, subsets of epainon which is a subset of eudokia. The eudokia bookends are about
purpose; the epainon bookends, result; but in between, what OPERATION
occurs?
So your second
asset in the eudokia portfolio, Redemption, itself has subsets which alike are
separate portfolios of their own.
o APHESIN, Forgiveness-of-Sin assets. You get
these each time you use 1John1:9, even if you don't learn and live on
Bible. You won't grow, but you are still
fixed enough so you CAN grow. You avoid
illness this way, so USE THE VERSE.
o You grow, as a result of learning and living on Bible between sins. In what? WISDOM
and CLEAR THINKING. Bad decisions come from bad
thinking; an unhappy life comes from bad
thinking. Like a bad computer program,
it's difficult to unravel bad thinking.
Bible in your head will reprogram you, as you consent to learning and
living, on it.
o So this is a real asset helping you in every
category of your life. Hence the pasei, 'every class'. Whether you're inside or outside, Bible
class. For God hears you 24/7; it won't be pleasing to Him to hear you think
badly. So, He provides a way to think
well. As well as His Son.
o You need wisdom, to rule. You need to be clear-headed, to rule. It
requires much repetition of, 'How do I apply Bible to this email, this grocery
list, this appointment?' For, that's how you should be thinking, were you wise
and clear-headed. This
is Christ's Thinking (next verse), so you get to practice living as Christ did; He was always thinking
toward Father. So every decision had
pro's and con's; and it's a Ruling, to decide between them, as we saw back with
the first eudokia.. thelematos clause, in verse 5.
o So repeating 1John1:9 and repeating learning and living on Bible will
transform your life in a very short time, less than a year. Even a month. Begin
to use the verse habitually, and study under whomever is your right pastor (ask
God who that is). Do that, see what
happens.
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Fifth Asset in the eudokian
portfolio,
Thinking like Christ:
ynwrisas ..to musterion
God authorizes Biggest Release of Christ's Thinking Funds, to
Clone Him.. in you.
"For We Have the Thinking of Christ"
1Cor2:16, metron..merous
With this
verse, Paul concludes his sequential meter-mapping of Isaiah 53:9-11, in order. He also finishes mapping to Psalm 90:1-5a. [How
clever, to break the 63 into 56+7, tying
to BOTH Moses and Isaiah. For at 56, the
sum 28+56=84. Oh! And since Christ is the Last Adam, Paul ties
to the first clause in Psalm 90:5 @7
syllables, which begins the Adamic voting period 'testimony', is about Flood as
Divine Judgment, announced at least 1000 years in advance, by Enoch. At the same time, 56+7=63, which is 14 short
of the 84; Moses deliberately broke his
meter that way (verse 3 ending at 63): for the Millennium depends on the 14,
first completing. Further, Moses didn't
subparse the verse at 14, but as 12 and 9, which of course is three
sevens; clever way to say Israel will go
overbudget. I didn't see all this at
first, as I mis-parsed Eph1:9 as one unit of 63 syllables. When
auditing eudokian anaphora's meter, however, I learned I had mis-parsed,
so learned of this 56+7 construction.
See: Bible is self-auditing; even
shows how to parse the very syllables, so you can check your elision
assumptions!]
First Clause: see End Notes b and g. Here Paul introduces the grand theme of KNOWING
CHRIST, the goal of the spiritual life.
Observe that you are to KNOW Someone, not do something. Paul sets up his prayer in Eph3:15-19, and
the 'destination of life', Greek verb katantaw in Eph4:12, to get the same Maturity
as Christ's Own, Eph4:13. That's the
Rapture criterion of the Body of Christ, and your own personal criterion
for the length of your life.
Paul got there,
2Tim4:6-8; so, like Enoch, his life was over.
So we can get there, too.
The word 'mystery' is new vocabulary, but the concept is
thoroughly OT in origin. The typical OT
idea was 'hidden'. Paul updates it to 'mystery'
because the term is a culturally-loaded word, in Greek. Thus Paul
UNITES Hebrew and Greek concepts when he invokes the Hidden Understanding
Promise in the 'New Covenant' to Israel, recorded in Jeremiah 31:31-34. The Temple was the stand-in for the Temple to
Come; when He came, He'd be REVEALED,
and His Thinking would therefore also be Revealed, so everyone could get it. 'God with us' was to become 'God in us' --
but until that God the Son took on Humanity, there was no way to GET that
Thinking. For, we have souls, and until
His Own SOUL existed and was built, humans couldn't get that much
intimacy. So that's why they had to make
do with angelic visits, rituals, etc. As we can see, they were amazingly
skilled with Scripture, just the same.
But the level promised them was much higher, as it becomes easier
to COPY His Soul Structure, once that Structure exists. Written Bible, is that Copy. Structure of Principles and connections. Just as promised.
So that's why Paul uses the term 'hidden' and 'mystery'.
HIDDEN IN CHRIST. Now, revealed, because
He came, was developed, and now has Won, for All Time. So now, you can know Him intimately. And you come to know Him intimately, only one
way: through Scripture. OT and NT.
Completed now. No dreams,
visions, experiences, etc. That was all
kid stuff, and only demons play those games, now. Holy Spirit only uses Bible. And if you use 1John1:9, learn-and-live-on-Bible,
you'll see how phenomenal a life, it is.
You eventually can think as well as Paul writes, here. I know.
It happens to me often. I
recognize what's happening to Paul when he writes. I've even seen it happen to others who've
only been in the spiritual life, for a year or two! The 'secret' is to use 1John1:9 like
breathing, learn and live on Bible under whomever God appointed personally for
you, as your own pastor; then use Bible as
you know it. Holy
Spirit RECALLS Scripture and how it applies, John 14:26. It's lightning fast. You can test this claim yourself, in your own
life.
And then you will come to
know what's hidden to most people, Eph 3:15-19:
Christ. Through Scripture. Really know Him. Just as God promised, ever since Jeremiah
31:31-34 (elaborated
on in the Book of Hebrews).
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